Woe to Oppressors

1 Woe to those who ascheme iniquity,

Who work out evil on their beds!

1bWhen morning comes, they do it,

For it is in the cpower of their hands.

2 They acovet fields and then bseize them,

And houses, and take them away.

They 1crob a man and his house,

A man and his inheritance.

3 Therefore thus says the Lord,

“Behold, I am aplanning against this bfamily a calamity

From which you ccannot remove your necks;

And you will not walk dhaughtily,

For it will be an eevil time.

4 “On that day they will atake up against you a 1taunt

And 2butter a bitter lamentation and say,

‘We are completely cdestroyed!

He exchanges the portion of my people;

How He removes it from me!

To the apostate He dapportions our fields.’

5 “Therefore you will have no one 1astretching a measuring line

For you by lot in the assembly of the Lord.