2 Alas for those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds^[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.
² They covet fields, and seize them;
    houses, and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
    people and their inheritance.
³ Therefore thus says the Lord:
Now, I am devising against this family an evil
    from which you cannot remove your necks;
and you shall not walk haughtily,
    for it will be an evil time.
⁴ On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you,
    and wail with bitter lamentation,
and say, “We are utterly ruined;
    the Lord^[b] alters the inheritance of my people;
how he removes it from me!
    Among our captors^[c] he parcels out our fields.”
⁵ Therefore you will have no one to cast the line by lot
    in the assembly of the Lord.

¹⁸ “Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
    my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
    and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
¹⁹ He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
    nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
²⁰ He will not break a bruised reed
    or quench a smoldering wick
until he brings justice to victory.
²¹     And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”