1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

1 Væ qui cogitatis inutile,
et operamini malum in cubilibus vestris!
In luce matutina faciunt illud,
quoniam contra Deum est manus eorum.

2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

2 Et concupierunt agros, et violenter tulerunt:
et rapuerunt domos,
et calumniabantur virum, et domum ejus:
virum, et hæreditatem ejus.

3 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

3 Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus:
Ecce ego cogito super familiam istam malum,
unde non auferetis colla vestra,
et non ambulabitis superbi:
quoniam tempus pessimum est.

4 ¶ In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

4 In die illa sumetur super vos parabola,
et cantabitur canticum cum suavitate, dicentium:
Depopulatione vastati sumus;
pars populi mei commutata est:
quomodo recedet a me, cum revertatur,
qui regiones nostras dividat?

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.

5 Propter hoc non erit tibi mittens funiculum sortis in cœtu Domini.

6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

6 Ne loquamini loquentes;
non stillabit super istos, non comprehendet confusio.

7 ¶ O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

7 Dicit domus Jacob:
Numquid abbreviatus est spiritus Domini,
aut tales sunt cogitationes ejus?
nonne verba mea bona sunt cum eo qui recte graditur?

8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

8 et e contrario populus meus in adversarium consurrexit.
Desuper tunica pallium sustulistis:
et eos qui transibant simpliciter convertistis in bellum.

9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

9 Mulieres populi mei ejecistis de domo deliciarum suarum;
a parvulis earum tulistis laudem meam in perpetuum.

10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

10 Surgite, et ite, quia non habetis hic requiem:
propter immunditiam ejus corrumpetur putredine pessima.

11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

11 Utinam non essem vir habens spiritum,
et mendacium potius loquerer!
Stillabo tibi in vinum et in ebrietatem;
et erit super quem stillatur populus iste.

12 ¶ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

12 Congregatione congregabo, Jacob, totum te;
in unum conducam reliquias Israël:
pariter ponam illum quasi gregem in ovili,
quasi pecus in medio caularum:
tumultuabuntur a multitudine hominum.

13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.

13 Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos:
divident, et transibunt portam,
et ingredientur per eam:
et transibit rex eorum coram eis,
et Dominus in capite eorum.