ULT MIC Chapter 2

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2 Woe to the devisers of iniquity

and the workers of evil on their beds!

In the light of the morning they do it,

for it is in the power of their hand.

2 And they covet fields and seize them,

and houses, and take them away.

And they oppress a man and his house,

and a man and his inheritance.

3 Therefore, thus says Yahweh:

"Behold me, devising against this clan disaster,

which you will not remove your necks from there,

and you will not walk haughtily,

for it is an evil time.

4 In that day someone will lift up against you a proverb,

and lament a lamentation of a lamentation;

He says, ‘Destroying, we are destroyed!

The portion of my people he exchanges!

How he removes it from me!

To a rebel he divides our fields!’ ”

5 Therefore there will not be for you one casting a measuring line by lot

in the assembly of Yahweh.

6 "Do not drip," they drip.

They do not drip about these things;

disgraces will not depart.

7 Should it be said, house of Jacob,

"Is the Spirit of Yahweh short?"

Or, “Are these his deeds?”

Do not my words do good

with the one walking uprightly?

8 “But recently my people rise up as an enemy.

You strip the splendor from the front of the garment,

from those passing by in security,

those returning from war.

9 The women of my people you drive out

from the house of her delights;

from upon her infants you take away

my splendor forever.

10 Rise up and go!

For this is not the resting place;

because of uncleanness it will destroy,

and a grievous destruction.”

11 If a man walking in wind and falsehood lied,

"I will drip to you of wine and of beer,"

he would be the dripper of this people.

12 “Gathering, I will gather Jacob, all of you.

Assembling, I will assemble the remnant of Israel.

Together I will set them like sheep of Bozrah,

like a flock in the midst of its pasture;

they will be noisy from humanity.

13 The breaker has gone up to the face of them.

They have broken through and passed through the gate

and gone out through it.

And their king has passed on to the face of them,

and Yahweh is at their head.

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