³Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it is a time of disaster.

⁴In that day they will raise a proverb against you,

and will wail a bitter wailing, saying,

“We are utterly ruined;

he exchanges the portion of my people.

How he removes it from me;

he apportions our field to an apostate.”

⁵Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot

in the assembly of Yahweh.

⁶“Do not preach!” they are preaching.

They should not preach to these;

disgrace will not overtake us.

⁷Should this be said, O house of Jacob?

Is the patience^a of Yahweh shortened?

Are these his deeds?

Are my words not pleasing

to him who walks upright?

⁸But recently^b my people have risen up as an enemy;

from before the cloak you strip off the robe

from those passing by in confidence,

returning from war.

⁹You have driven out the women of my people

from the houses of their^c pleasure.

From their^d children you have taken away

my glory forever.

¹⁰Arise and go,

for this is no resting place,

on account of uncleanness that destroys

with painful destruction.

¹¹If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies,

saying “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”

then he would be a preacher for this people!

¹²I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob;

I will surely gather together the remainder of Israel.

I will set them like sheep of Bozrah.

Like a herd in the midst of their pasture

they will be in tumult from people.

¹³The one who breaks out before them goes up;

they break through and pass the gate,

going out through it.

Their king passes before them,

Yahweh at their head.

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Footnotes

aOr “spirit”
bLiterally “yesterday”
cHebrew “her”
dHebrew “her”