1
Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds a on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
2
They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.
3
Therefore thus says the Lord: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
4
On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; the Lord b alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors c he parcels out our fields."
5
Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
