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Woe [to] those devising iniquity, || And working evil on their beds, || In the morning light they do it, || For their hand is—to God.
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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.
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Therefore, thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am devising against this family calamity, || From which you do not remove your necks, || Nor walk loftily, for it [is] a time of evil.
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In that day [one] takes up for you an allegory, || And he has wailed a wailing of woe, || He has said, We have been utterly spoiled, || The portion of my people He changes, || How He moves toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportions.
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Therefore, you have no caster of a line by lot || In the assembly of YHWH.
Reproof of False Prophets
(Ezekiel 13:1–16)
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You do not prophesy—they prophesy, || They do not prophesy to these, || It does not remove shame.
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[Those] named the house of Jacob: Has the Spirit of YHWH been shortened? Are these His doings? Do My words not benefit the people that are walking uprightly?
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And recently My people raise up as an enemy, || You strip off the honorable ornament from the outer garment, || From the confident passers by, || You who are turning back from war.
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The women of My people you cast out from its delightful house, || From its sucklings you take away My honor for all time.
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Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, || Because of uncleanness it corrupts, || And corruption is powerful.
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If one is going [with] the wind, || And [with] falsehood has lied: I prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink, || He has been the prophet of this people!
The Remnant of Israel
(Micah 5:7–15)
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I surely gather you, O Jacob, all of you, || I surely bring together the remnant of Israel, || Together I set it as the flock of Bozrah, || As a drove in the midst of its pasture, || It makes a noise because of man.
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The breaker has gone up before them, || They have broken through, || Indeed, they pass through the gate, || Indeed, they go out through it, || And their king passes on before them, || And YHWH at their head!”
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