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chapter 2
1
Woe to
you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the
morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
2 And they have coveted fields, and taken them by
violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his
house, a man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Behold, I devise an
evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you
shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
4 In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and
a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and
spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me,
whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the
cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these,
confusion shall not take them.
7 The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord
straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that
walketh uprightly?
8 But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an
enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed
harmless you have turned to war.
9 You have cast out the women of my people from their
houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from
their children.
10 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for
you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous
corruption.
11 Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and
that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness:
and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.
12 I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O
Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as
a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall
make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.
13 For he shall go up that shall open the way before
them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it:
and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.
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