OPPRESSORS JUDGED

2 Woe to those who dream up wickedness

and prepare evil plansap on their beds!

At morning lightaq they accomplish it

because the power is in their hands.a

2 They covet fieldsb and seize them;c

they also take houses.

They deprive a man of his home,d

a person of his inheritance.e

3 Therefore, the Lord says:

I am now planningf a disaster

against this nation;g

you cannot free your necks from it.h

Then you will not walk so proudlyi

because it will be an evil time.j

4 In that day one will take upk a taunt against you

and lament mournfully,l saying,

“We are totally ruined!m

He measures out the allotted land of my people.

How he removes it from me!

He allots our fieldsn to traitors.”

5 Therefore, there will be no one

in the assembly of the Lord

to divide the land by casting lots.A,o