16MAKE BALD AND SHEAR ON [THE] CHILDREN OF DELIGHTS YOUR MAKE LARGE BALDNESS YOUR LIKE <THE> EAGLE FOR THEY WILL GO INTO EXILE FROM YOU 16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
1WOE TO! [THOSE WHO] PLAN <OF> WICKEDNESS AND [THOSE WHO] DO <OF> EVIL ON BEDS THEIR AT [THE] LIGHT THE MORNING THEY DO IT FOR THERE [BELONGS] TO [THE] POWER OF HAND THEIR Woe to Oppressors 1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
2AND THEY DESIRE FIELDS AND THEY SEIZE [THEM] AND HOUSES AND THEY TAKE [THEM] AND THEY OPPRESS A MAN AND HOUSEHOLD HIS AND A MAN AND INHERITANCE HIS 2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
3<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH HERE I [AM] PLANNING ON THE CLAN <THE> THIS CALAMITY WHICH NOT YOU WILL REMOVE FROM THERE NECKS YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL WALK HAUGHTILY FOR [WILL BE] A TIME EVIL IT 3Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
4ON THE DAY <THE> THAT SOMEONE WILL LIFT UP ON YOU A SAYING AND HE WILL WAIL A WAILING IT IS FINISHED HE WILL SAY UTTERLY <DEVASTATE> WE ARE DEVASTATED [THE] PORTION OF PEOPLE MY HE EXCHANGES HOW! HE REMOVES [IT] FOR ME TO AN APOSTATE FIELDS OUR HE APPORTIONS 4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
5<TO> THEREFORE NOT HE WILL BELONG TO YOU [ONE WHO] CASTS A MEASURING-LINE BY LOT IN [THE] ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH 5Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.
6MAY NOT YOU PROPHESY THEY PROPHESY! NOT THEY WILL PROPHESY OF THESE [THINGS] NOT IT WILL BE TURNED BACK IGNOMINI[ES] Reproof of False Prophets (Ezekiel 13:1–16) 6“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
7¿ [IS IT] SAID O HOUSE OF JACOB ¿ IS IT SHORT [THE] SPIRIT OF YAHWEH OR? [ARE] THESE DEEDS HIS ¿ NOT WORDS MY DO THEY DO GOOD WITH THE UPRIGHT [PERSON] WALKING 7Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?
8AND YESTERDAY PEOPLE MY TO AN ENEMY HE RAISES UP FROM IN FRONT OF A GARMENT A MANTLE YOU STRIP OFF! FROM [THOSE WHO] PASS BY SECURITY [THOSE WHO] RETURN OF WAR 8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
9[THE] WOMEN OF PEOPLE MY YOU DRIVE OUT! FROM [THE] HOUSE OF DELIGHTS HER FROM WITH CHILDREN HER YOU TAKE AWAY GLORY MY FOR EVER 9You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
10ARISE AND GO FOR NOT THIS [IS] <THE> RESTING PLACE <IN> BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME UNCLEAN IT WILL DESTROY AND [THE] DESTRUCTION [WILL BE] GRIEVOUS 10Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction— a grievous destruction!
11IF ANYONE WALKING OF WIND AND FALSEHOOD HE TOLD A LIE I WILL PROPHESY FOR YOU OF <THE> WINE AND OF <THE> STRONG DRINK AND HE WILL BE [THE] PROPHESIER OF THE PEOPLE <THE> THIS 11If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”*NoteCloseOr “I will prophesy to you for wine and strong drink” he would be just the preacher for this people!
12SURELY <GATHER> I WILL GATHER O JACOB ALL OF YOU SURELY <ASSEMBLE> I WILL ASSEMBLE [THE] REMNANT OF ISRAEL TOGETHER I WILL MAKE IT LIKE SHEEP A SHEEPFOLD LIKE A FLOCK IN [THE] MIDST OF <THE> PASTURE ITS THEY WILL BE DISTRAUGHT FROM HUMANKIND The Remnant of Israel (Micah 5:7–15) 12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.
13HE WILL GO UP THE [ONE WHO] BREAKS THROUGH <TO> BEFORE THEM THEY WILL BREAK THROUGH AND THEY HAVE PASSED THROUGH [THE] GATE AND THEY HAVE GONE OUT BY IT AND HE HAS PASSED ON KING THEIR <TO> BEFORE THEM AND YAHWEH [WILL BE] AT HEAD THEIR 13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.