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1.14 :The houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.
 * I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee;
 * The glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.
 * Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight;
 * Enlarge thy baldness as the vulture;
 * For they are gone into captivity from thee.


 * Woe to them that devise iniquity
 * And work evil upon their beds!
 * When the morning is light, they execute it,
 * Because it is in the power of their hand.
 * And they covet fields, and seize them;
 * And houses, and take them away;
 * Thus they oppress a man and his house,
 * Even a man and his heritage.
 * Therefore thus saith the :
 * Behold, against this family do I devise an evil,
 * From which ye shall not remove your necks,
 * Neither shall ye walk upright; for it shall be an evil time.
 * In that day shall they take up a parable against you,
 * And lament with a doleful lamentation, and say:
 * 'We are utterly ruined;
 * He changeth the portion of my people;
 * How doth he remove it from me!
 * Instead of restoring our fields, he divideth them.'
 * Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot
 * In the congregation of the.


 * 'Preach ye not', they preach;
 * 'They shall not preach of these things,
 * That they shall not take shame.'
 * Do I change, house of Jacob?
 * Is the spirit of the straitened?
 * Are these His doings?
 * Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?


 * But of late My people is risen up as an enemy;
 * With the garment ye strip also the mantle
 * From, them that pass by securely, so that they are as men returning from war.
 * The women of My people ye cast out from their pleasant houses;
 * From their young children ye take away My glory for ever.
 * Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting-place;
 * Because of the uncleanness thereof, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.


 * If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie:
 * 'I will preach unto thee of wine and of strong drink';
 * He shall even be the preacher of this people.


 * I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee;
 * I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
 * I will render them all as sheep in a fold;
 * As a flock in the midst of their pasture,
 * They shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
 * The breaker is gone up before them;
 * They have broken forth and passed on,