1. Trouble will come to those who make plans to sin. They lie on their beds making their evil plans. Then when the morning light comes, they do what they planned, because they have the power to do what they want.
2. They want fields, so they take them. They want houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and take his house and his land.
3. That is why the Lord says: “Look, I am planning trouble against this family. You will not be able to save yourselves. You will stop being proud, because bad times are coming.
4. Then people will sing songs about you. They will sing this sad song: ‘We are ruined! The Lord took away our land and gave it to other people. Yes, he took my land away from me. He has divided our fields among our enemies.
5. So we will not be able to measure the land and divide it among the Lord’S people.’”
6. The people say, “Don’t prophesy to us. Don’t say those bad things about us. Nothing bad will happen to us.”