21 Woe to those who scheme iniquity , Who work out evil on their beds ! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands . 2 They covet fields and then seize them, And houses , and take them away. They rob a man and his house , A man and his inheritance . 3 Therefore thus says the Lord , "Behold , I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks ; And you will not walk haughtily , For it will be an evil time . 4 "On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say , 'We are completely destroyed ! He exchanges the portion of my people ; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields .' 5 "Therefore you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord .
6 ' Do not speak out,' so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things , Reproaches will not be turned back . 7 "Is it being said , O house of Jacob : 'Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient ? Are these His doings ?' Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly ? 8 "Recently My people have arisen as an enemy - You strip the robe e off the garment From unsuspecting passers-by , From those returned from war . 9 "The women of My people you evict , Each one from her pleasant house . From her children you take My splendor forever . 10 "Arise and go , For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction , A painful destruction . 11 "If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor ,' He would be spokesman to this people .
12 "I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob , I will surely gather the remnant of Israel . I will put them together like sheep in the fold ; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men . 13 "The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the Lord at their head ."
