1. Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.
2. And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3. Therefore thus said יהוה, “See, against this clan I am planning evil, from which you do not remove your necks, nor walk proudly, for this is a time of evil.
4. “In that day one shall lift up a proverb against you, and he shall lament with a bitter lamentation, and shall say, ‘We have been utterly ravaged! He changes the inheritance of my people. How He removes it from me! He apportions our fields to the backslider.’ ”
5. “Therefore you shall have no one in the assembly of יהוה to divide the land by lot.
6. “You do not preach, they preach. They do not preach to these, reproaches are not turned back.