An Evil Time
Woe to those who adevise wickedness,Who work out evil on their beds!bWhen the light of the morning comes, they do it,For it is in the cpower of their hands.Ps 36:4; Is 32:7; Nah 1:11Hos 7:6, 7Gen 31:29; Deut 28:32; Prov 3:272 And they acovet fields and then btear them away,And houses, and take them away.And they coppress a man and his house,A man and his inheritance.Jer 22:17; Amos 8:4Is 5:81 Kin 21:1-15
3 Therefore thus says Yahweh,“Behold, I am adevising against this bfamily an evil demiseFrom 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 1tauntAnd 2butter a bitter wailing and say,‘We are completely cdevastated!He exchanges the portion of my people;How He removes it from me!To the faithless one, 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 1astretching a measuring lineFor you by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.Lit castingNum 34:13, 16-29; Deut 32:8; Josh 18:4, 10
6 ‘aDo not speak, dripping out words,’ they say while dripping out words.But if 1they do bnot drip out words concerning these things,cDishonor will not be turned back.God’s prophetsIs 30:10; Amos 2:12; 7:16Is 29:10; Mic 3:6Mic 6:167 “Is it being said, O house of Jacob:‘Is the Spirit of Yahweh aimpatient?Are these His deeds?’Do not My words bdo goodTo the one cwalking uprightly?Is 50:2; 59:1Ps 119:65, 68, 116; Jer 15:16Ps 15:2; 84:118 “1And recently My people have arisen as an aenemy—You bstrip the 2robe off the garmentFrom cunsuspecting passers-by,From those returned from war.Lit And yesterdayOr ornamentsJer 12:8Mic 3:2, 3; 7:2, 3Ps 120:6, 79 “The women of My people you adrive out,Each one from her pleasant house.From her infants 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 wreaks destruction,A painful destruction.Deut 12:9Ps 106:3811 “If a man walking after wind and alyingHad acted falsely and said,‘I will speak, dripping out words to you concerning bwine and liquor,’He would be one who drips out words as a spokesman to cthis people.Jer 5:31Is 28:7Is 30:10, 11
12 “I will surely aassemble all of you, Jacob;I will surely 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 men.Mic 4:6, 7Mic 5:7, 8; 7:1813 “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 Yahweh at their head.”