2:1 Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
2:2 They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
2:3 Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
2:4 In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.’”
2:5 Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord to divide the land by lot.
2:6 “Do not prophesy,” their prophets say. “Do not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
2:7 You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, “Does the Lord become* impatient? Does he do such things?” “Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright? / *Or Is the Spirit of the Lord
2:8 Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle.
2:9 You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
2:10 Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place, because it is defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.
2:11 If a liar and deceiver comes and says, ‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ that would be just the prophet for this people!
2:12 “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.
2:13 The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.”