3. Therefore thus says the Lord:“Behold, against this family I am devising disaster,From which you cannot remove your necks;Nor shall you walk haughtily,For this is an evil time.
4. In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:‘We are utterly destroyed!He has changed the heritage of my people;How He has removed it from me!To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
5. Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lotIn the assembly of the Lord.
6. “Do not prattle,” you say to those who prophesy.So they shall not prophesy to you;They shall not return insult for insult.
7. You who are named the house of Jacob:“Is the Spirit of the Lord restricted?Are these His doings?Do not My words do goodTo him who walks uprightly?
8. “Lately My people have risen up as an enemy—You pull off the robe with the garmentFrom those who trust you, as they pass by,Like men returned from war.