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Woe to those who devise crookedness and work evil upon their beds. At the light of morning they do it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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And they covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away. And they oppress an ish and his house, an ish and his Inheritance.
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Therefore thus says Yahuah: “See, against this family I am devising evil from which you shall not remove your necks, nor shall you walk proudly, for it shall be an evil time.
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In that day one shall lift up a proverb against you and lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: ‘We are utterly devastated. He changes the portion of my people. How He removes it from me! To the rebellious He divides our fields.’
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Therefore you shall have no one casting a measuring line by lot in the assembly of Yahuah.
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‘Do not prophesy,’ they prophesy. ‘They shall not prophesy concerning these things. Disgrace shall not overtake us.’
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Is it said, House of Yaaqov: ‘Is the Ruach of Yahuah shortened? Are these His deeds?’ Do not My Words do good to the one walking uprightly?
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But lately My people has risen as an enemy. From before the garment you strip the cloak from those passing securely, those returning from war.
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The women of My people you drive out from the houses of their delight. From their children you take My splendor forever.
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Rise and go, for this is not your resting place. Because of uncleanness it shall destroy, and the destruction shall be grievous.
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If an ish walking in ruach and falsehood lies, saying: ‘I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink,’ he shall become the prophet for this people.
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Gathering, I will surely gather all of you, Yaaqov. Collecting, I will surely collect the remnant of Yisra’el. I will set them together like sheep in the fold, like a flock in the midst of its pasture. They shall make a great noise because of Adam.
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The breaker has gone up before them. They break through and pass through the gate and go out through it. And their King passes before them, and Yahuah at their head.