Michoh 2

¹Hoy (Woe) to them that devise aven (iniquity) ,

and plot rah (evil) upon their mishkavim (beds) !

At ohr haboker they carry it out,

because it is in the power of their hand.

²And they covet sadot, and seize them;

and batim (houses) , and take them away;

so they oppress a man and his bais,

even a man and his nachalah (inheritance) .

³Therefore thus saith Hashem :

Hineni, against this mishpochah do I plan a ra'ah,

from which ye shall not remove your tzavarot (necks) ;

neither shall ye walk haughtily;

for an et ra'ah (time of evil) it is.

⁴In Yom HaHu shall one take up a mashal against you,

and lament with a doleful lamentation,

and say: We are utterly ruined;

He ( Hashem ) hath changed the chelek of Ami (my People) ;

how hath He ( Hashem ) removed it from me!

To the shovev (faithless, apostate) He ( Hashem ) apportions our sadot.

⁵Therefore thou shalt have none that shall divide

for you the land by lot in the Kahal Hashem .

⁶Preach ye not, they preach;

but if they do not preach concerning these things,

kellimot (disgraces, reproaches) will not be turned back.

⁷O thou that art named Bais Ya'akov, is the Ruach of Hashem angry?[#2:7 Hakodesh]

Are these His doings?

Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

⁸Even of late Ami is risen up as an oyev (enemy) ;

ye pull off the cloak from the garment

from them that pass by securely as men averse to milchamah (war) .

⁹The women of Ami have ye cast out from their pleasant homes;

from their ollalim have ye taken away My glory l'olam.

¹⁰Arise ye, and depart;

for this is not the menuchah (the place of rest) ;

because of the tameah (defilement) that brings sore destruction.

¹¹If a man, walking after the wind and sheker, do lie, saying:

I will prophesy unto thee of yayin and of strong drink;

he shall even be the mattif (preacher) of Am HaZeh (this people) .

¹²I will surely assemble, O Ya'akov, all of thee;

I will surely gather the She'erit Yisroel;

I will put them together like the tzon of the pen,

like the eder (flock) in the meadow;

they shall throng with people.

¹³The one who breaks through comes up before them;

they break through, and pass through the sha'ar,

and go out by it;

and their Melech goes before them,

and Hashem at their head.