2:2 They confiscate the fields they desire,
and seize the houses they want. 1
They defraud people of their homes, 2
and deprive people of the land they have inherited. 3
7:6 For a son thinks his father is a fool,
a daughter challenges 4 her mother,
and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law;
a man’s enemies are his own servants. 5
2:9 You wrongly evict widows 6 among my people from their cherished homes.
You defraud their children 7 of their prized inheritance. 8
4:1 In the future 9 the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; 10
it will be more prominent than other hills. 11
People will stream to it.
6:4 In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
I delivered you from that place of slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you. 12
1:2 Listen, all you nations! 13
Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! 14
The sovereign Lord will testify 15 against you;
the Lord will accuse you 16 from his majestic palace. 17
6:16 You implement the regulations of Omri,
and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; 18
you follow their policies. 19
Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, 20
the city’s 21 inhabitants will be taunted derisively, 22
and nations will mock all of you.” 23
6:10 “I will not overlook, 24 O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, 25
or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much. 26
3:12 Therefore, because of you, 27 Zion will be plowed up like 28 a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
and the Temple Mount 29 will become a hill overgrown with brush! 30
1:14 Therefore you 31 will have to say farewell 32 to Moresheth Gath.
The residents 33 of Achzib 34 will be as disappointing
as a dried up well 35 to the kings of Israel. 36
4:2 Many nations will come, saying,
“Come on! Let’s go up to the Lord’s mountain,
to the temple 37 of Jacob’s God,
so he can teach us his commands 38
and we can live by his laws.” 39
For Zion will be the source of instruction;
the Lord’s teachings will proceed from Jerusalem. 40
2:8 but you rise up as an enemy against my people. 41
You steal a robe from a friend, 42
from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war. 43
5:14 I will uproot your images of Asherah 44 from your midst,
and destroy your idols. 45
2:10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! 46
For this land is not secure! 47
Sin will thoroughly destroy it! 48
1:7 All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces;
all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. 49
I will make a waste heap 50 of all her images.
Since 51 she gathered the metal 52 as a prostitute collects her wages,
the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.” 53
4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine
or under his own fig tree without any fear. 54
The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. 55