Woe to Oppressors
Woe to those who adevise wrongdoing,Who practice evil on their beds!1bWhen morning comes, they do it,Because it is in the cpower of their hands.Lit In the light of the morningPs 36:4; Is 32:7; Nah 1:11Hos 7:6, 7Gen 31:29; Deut 28:32; Prov 3:272 They acovet fields, so they bseize them;And houses, so they take them.They 1cexploit a man and his house,A person and his inheritance.Or oppressJer 22:17; Amos 8:4Is 5:81 Kin 21:1-15
3 Therefore this is what the LORD says:“Behold, I am aplanning against this bfamily a catastropheFrom which you ccannot remove your necks;And you will not walk dhaughtily,For it will be an eevil time.Deut 28:48; Jer 18:11Jer 8:3; Amos 3:1, 2Lam 1:14; 5:5Is 2:11, 12Amos 5:13
4 “On that day they will atake up against you a 1song of mockingAnd 2butter a song of mourning and say,‘We are completely cdestroyed!He exchanges the share of my people;How He removes it from me!To the apostate He dapportions our fields.’Or proverbLit lamentHab 2:6Jer 9:10, 17-21; Mic 1:8Is 6:11; 24:3; Jer 4:13Jer 6:12; 8:105 “Therefore you will have no one 1aapplying a measuring lineFor you by lot in the assembly of the LORD.Lit castingNum 34:13, 16-29; Deut 32:8; Josh 18:4, 10
6 ‘aDo not prophesy,’ so they prophesy.But if 1they do bnot prophesy about these things,cInsults will not be turned back.I.e., God’s prophetsIs 30:10; Amos 2:12; 7:16Is 29:10; Mic 3:6Mic 6:167 “Is it being said, house of Jacob:‘Is the Spirit of the LORD aimpatient?Are these His works?’Do My words not bdo goodFor the one cwalking rightly?Is 50:2; 59:1Ps 119:65, 68, 116; Jer 15:16Ps 15:2; 84:118 “1Recently My people have arisen as an aenemy—You bstrip the robe off the garmentFrom cunsuspecting passers-by,From those returned from war.Lit And yesterdayJer 12:8Mic 3:2, 3; 7:2, 3Ps 120:6, 79 “You aevict the women of My people,Each one from her pleasant house.From her children you take My bsplendor forever.Jer 10:20Ezek 39:21; Hab 2:1410 “Arise and go,For this is no place aof restBecause of the buncleanness that brings on destruction,A painful destruction.Deut 12:9Ps 106:3811 “If someone walking after wind and afalsehoodHad lied and said,‘I will prophesy to you about bwine and liquor,’He would become a prophet to cthis people.Jer 5:31Is 28:7Is 30:10, 11
12 “I will certainly aassemble all of you, Jacob,I will certainly gather the bremnant of Israel.I will put them together like sheep in the fold;Like a flock in the midst of its pastureThey will be noisy with people.Mic 4:6, 7Mic 5:7, 8; 7:1813 “The one who breaks through goes up before them;They break through, pass through the gate, and go out by it.So their king passes on before them,And the LORD at their head.”