2 Doom to those who devise wickedness,
        to those who plan evil when they are in bed.
    By the light of morning they do it,
        for they are very powerful.
² They covet fields and seize them,
        houses and take them away.
    They oppress a householder and those in his house,
        a man and his estate.
³ Therefore, the Lord proclaims:
    I myself am devising an evil against this family
        from which you will not be able to remove your necks!
    You will no longer be able to go about arrogantly,
        for it will be an evil time.
⁴ On that day, a taunt will be raised against you;
        someone will wail bitterly:
        “We are utterly destroyed!
        He exchanges the portion of my people;
            he removes what belongs to me;
            he gives away our fields to a rebel.”
⁵ Therefore, you will have no one to set boundary lines
    by lot in the Lord’s assembly.

10 Why do you stand so far away, Lord,
    hiding yourself in troubling times?
² Meanwhile, the wicked are proudly
    in hot pursuit of those who suffer.
Let them get caught
    in the very same schemes they’ve thought up!

¹⁸ Look, my Servant whom I chose,
        the one I love, in whom I find great pleasure.
I’ll put my Spirit upon him,
        and he’ll announce judgment to the Gentiles.
¹⁹ He won’t argue or shout,
        and nobody will hear his voice in the streets.
²⁰ He won’t break a bent stalk,
        and he won’t snuff out a smoldering wick,
            until he makes justice win.
²¹ And the Gentiles will put their hope in his name.^[a]