1 ويل للمفتكرين بالبطل والصانعين الشر على مضاجعهم. في نور الصباح يفعلونه لانه في قدرة يدهم.2 فانهم يشتهون الحقول ويغتصبونها والبيوت ويأخذونها ويظلمون الرجل وبيته والانسان وميراثه.3 لذلك هكذا قال الرب. هانذا افتكر على هذه العشيرة بشر لا تزيلون منه اعناقكم ولا تسلكون بالتشامخ لانه زمان رديء4 في ذلك اليوم ينطق عليكم بهجو ويرثى بمرثاة ويقال خربنا خرابا. بدل نصيب شعبي. كيف ينزعه عني. يقسم للمرتدّ حقولنا.5 لذلك لا يكون لك من يلقي حبلا في نصيب بين جماعة الرب6 يتنبأون قائلين لا تتنبأوا. لا يتنبأون عن هذه الأمور لا يزول العار7 ايها المسمى بيت يعقوب هل قصرت روح الرب. أهذه افعاله. أليست اقوالي صالحة نحو من يسلك بالاستقامة.8 ولكن بالامس قام شعبي كعدوّ. تنزعون الرداء عن الثوب من المجتازين بالطمأنينة ومن الراجعين من القتال.9 تطردون نساء شعبي من بيت تنعّمهنّ تاخذون عن اطفالهنّ زينتي الى الابد10 قوموا واذهبوا لانه ليست هذه هي الراحة. من اجل نجاسة تهلك والهلاك شديد.11 لو كان احد وهو سالك بالريح والكذب يكذب قائلا اتنبأ لك عن الخمر والمسكر لكان هو نبيّ هذا الشعب12 اني اجمع جميعك يا يعقوب. اضمّ بقية اسرائيل. اضعهم معا كغنم الحظيرة كقطيع في وسط مرعاه يضجّ من الناس.13 قد صعد الفاتك امامهم. يقتحمون ويعبرون من الباب ويخرجون منه ويجتاز ملكهم امامهم والرب في راسهم

1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.3 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily: for this time is evil.4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.5 Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.6 Prophesy you not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.7 O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.9 The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory for ever.10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the middle of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.