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Woe to Oppressors
1 Woe to those who APs 36:4; Is 32:7; Nah 1:11scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
1Lit In the light of the morningBHos 7:6, 7When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the CGen 31:29; Deut 28:32; Prov 3:27power of their hands.
And houses, and take them away.
They 1Lit oppressC1 Kin 21:1-15rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
3 Therefore thus says the Loʀᴅ,
“Behold, I am ADeut 28:48; Jer 18:11planning against this BJer 8:3; Amos 3:1, 2family a calamity
From which you CLam 1:14; 5:5cannot remove your necks;
And you will not walk DIs 2:11, 12haughtily,
For it will be an EAmos 5:13evil time.
‘We are completely CIs 6:11; 24:3; Jer 4:13destroyed!
He exchanges the portion of my people;
How He removes it from me!
To the apostate He DJer 6:12; 8:10apportions our fields.’
5 “Therefore you will have no one 1Lit castingANum 34:13, 16-29; Deut 32:8; Josh 18:4, 10stretching a measuring line
For you by lot in the assembly of the Loʀᴅ.
But if 2I.e. God’s prophetsthey do BIs 29:10; Mic 3:6not 1Lit flowspeak out concerning these things,
CMic 6:16Reproaches will not be turned back.
7 “Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of the Loʀᴅ AIs 50:2; 59:1impatient?
Are these His doings?’
Do not My words BPs 119:65, 68, 116; Jer 15:16do good
To the one CPs 15:2; 84:11walking uprightly?
You BMic 3:2, 3; 7:2, 3strip the 2Or ornamentsrobe off the garment
From CPs 120:6, 7unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.
9 “The women of My people you AJer 10:20evict,
Each one from her pleasant house.
From her children you take My BEzek 39:21; Hab 2:14splendor forever.
10 “Arise and go,
For this is no place ADeut 12:9of rest
Because of the BPs 106:38uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.
11 “If a man walking after wind and AJer 5:31falsehood
Had told lies and said,
He would be 2Lit one who flows oraclesspokesman to CIs 30:10, 11this people.
12 “I will surely AMic 4:6, 7assemble all of you, Jacob,
I will surely gather the BMic 5:7, 8; 7:18remnant of Israel.
I will put them together like sheep in the fold;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture
They will be noisy with men.
13 “The breaker goes up before them;
They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.
So their king goes on before them,
And the Loʀᴅ at their head.”
A2:1 Ps 36:4; Is 32:7; Nah 1:11
12:1 Lit In the light of the morning
C2:1 Gen 31:29; Deut 28:32; Prov 3:27
12:2 Lit oppress
12:4 Or proverb
22:4 Lit lament
12:5 Lit casting
A2:5 Num 34:13, 16-29; Deut 32:8; Josh 18:4, 10
A2:6 Is 30:10; Amos 2:12; 7:16
12:6 Lit flow
12:6 Lit flow
22:6 I.e. God’s prophets
12:6 Lit flow
B2:7 Ps 119:65, 68, 116; Jer 15:16
12:8 Lit And yesterday
22:8 Or ornaments
12:11 Lit flow
22:11 Lit one who flows oracles