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| 2:1 | Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God. |
| 2:2 | And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance. |
| 2:3 | Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it `is'. |
| 2:4 | In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth. |
| 2:5 | Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah. |
| 2:6 | Ye do not prophesy -- they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame. |
| 2:7 | Doth the house of Jacob say, `Hath the Spirit of Jehovah been shortened? Are these His doings?' Do not My words benefit the people that is walking uprightly? |
| 2:8 | And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war. |
| 2:9 | The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age. |
| 2:10 | Rise and go, for this `is' not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful. |
| 2:11 | If one is going `with' the wind, And `with' falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,' He hath been the prophet of this people! |
| 2:12 | I do surely gather thee, O Jacob, all of thee, I surely bring together the remnant of Israel, Together I do set it as the flock of Bozrah, As a drove in the midst of its pasture, It maketh a noise because of man. |
| 2:13 | Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head! |
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| 2:1 | Wo vnto them, that ymagyn to do harme, and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes, to perfourme it in ye cleare daye: for their power is agaynst God. |
| 2:2 | When they covet to haue londe, they take it by violence, they robbe men off their houses. Thus they oppresse a ma for his house, & euery man for his heretage. |
| 2:3 | Therfore thus sayeth the LORDE: Beholde, agaynst this housholde haue I deuysed a plage, wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes: Ye shal nomore go so proudly, for it will be a perlous tyme. |
| 2:4 | In that daye shall this terme be vsed, and a mournynge shal be made ouer you on this maner: We be vtterly desolate, the porcion off my people is translated. Whan wil he parte vnto vs the londe, that he hath taken from vs? |
| 2:5 | Neuerthelesse there shalbe noman to deuyde the thy porcion, in the congregacion off the LORDE. |
| 2:6 | Tush, holde youre tunge (saye they) It shall not fall vpon this people, we shall not come so to confucion, |
| 2:7 | sayeth the house off Iacob. Is the sprete off the LORDE so clene awaye? or is he so mynded? Treuth it is, my wordes are frendly vnto them that lyue right: |
| 2:8 | but my people doth the contrary, therfore must I take parte agaynst them: for they take awaye both cote and cloke from the symple. Ye haue turned youre selues to fight, |
| 2:9 | the women off my people haue ye shot out fro their good houses, and taken awaye my excellent giftes from their children. |
| 2:10 | Vp, get you hence, for here shall ye haue no rest. Because off their Idolatry they are corrupte, and shall myserably perish. |
| 2:11 | Yff I were a fleshly felowe, and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might syt bebbinge and bollynge, and be droncken: O that were a prophet for this people. |
| 2:12 | But I will gather the indede (o Iacob) and dryue the remnaunt off Israel all together. I shall cary them one with another, as a flocke in the folde, and as the catell in their stalles, that they maye be disquieted of other men. |
| 2:13 | Who so breaketh the gappe, he shall go before. They shall breake vp the porte, and go in and out at it. Their kynge shall go before them, and the LORDE shalbe vpon the heade of them. |
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