“Therefore thus,
Says Yahweh.
‘Now!
I am devising
Against this family
An evil,
From which you cannot
Remove your necks.
You shall not walk haughtily!
It will be an evil time!
On that day,
They shall take up
A taunt song
Against you.
They will wail
With bitter lamentation.
They will say.
‘We are utterly ruined.
Yahweh alters
The inheritance
Of my people.
He removes it from me!
Among our captors,
He divides our fields.’”
Yahweh responded that he was devising some evil against these wicked people. They would wear a yoke on their necks, so that they could not walk around in a haughty manner. There would be an evil time for them on Yahweh’s appointed day. People would sing a taunting song against them as they would be wailing in a lamentation. They would admit that they would be ruined, because Yahweh had altered their inheritance. He had sent them off as captives, so that their fields would be divided up among other people. Yahweh’s response to these evil doers was an exile captivity with the loss of their land.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 