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Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.
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And they covet fields and take them by violence, and houses and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Therefore, thus saith the Lord: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily, for this time is evil.
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In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled; he hath changed the portion of my people. How hath he removed it from me! Turning away, he hath divided our fields.
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Therefore, thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
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Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy; they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
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O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
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Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy; ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory forever.
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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.
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I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
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The breaker is come up before them; they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.