2:1   Doomed! You're doomed! At night you lie in bed, making evil plans. And when morning comes, you do what you've planned because you have the power.

2:2   You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

2:3   But here is what the LORD says: "I am planning trouble for you. Your necks will be caught in a noose, and you will be disgraced in this time of disaster."

2:4   When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: "Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land and given it to traitors."

2:5   And so you will never again own property among the LORD's people.

2:6   "Enough of your preaching!" That's what you tell me. "We won't be disgraced, so stop preaching!"

2:7   Descendants of Jacob, is it right for you to claim that the LORD did what he did because he was angry? Doesn't he always bless those who do right?

2:8   My people, you have even stolen clothes right off the backs of your unsuspecting soldiers returning home from battle.

2:9   You take over lovely homes that belong to the women of my nation. Then you cheat their children out of the inheritance that comes from the LORD.

2:10   Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people, and you will be destroyed.

2:11   The only prophet you want is a liar who will say, "Drink and get drunk!"

2:12   I, the LORD, promise to bring together the people of Israel who have survived. I will gather them, just as a shepherd brings sheep together, and there will be many.

2:13   I will break down the gate and lead them out-- then I will be their king.