7:1 I’m doomed! I’ve become like one who, even after the summer fruit has been gathered, after the ripened fruits have been collected, has no cluster of grapes to eat, no ripe fig that I might desire.
7:2 Faithful ones have perished from the land; there is no righteous one among humanity. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; they hunt each other with nets.
7:3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil. Official and judge alike ask for a bribe; the powerful speak however they like; this is how they conspire.
7:4 The good among them are like a briar; those who do the right thing are like a thorny thicket. (A day for your lookouts! Your punishment has arrived. The confusion of the wicked is nearby.)
7:5 Don’t rely on a friend; put no trust in a companion; guard the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your embrace.
7:6 Son disrespects father; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; the enemies of a man are those of his own household.
7:7 But me! I will keep watch for the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
7:8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy, because when I fall, I will rise; if I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.
7:9 I must bear the raging of the Lord, for I have sinned against him, until he decides my case and provides justice for me. He will bring me out into the light; I will see by means of his righteousness.
7:10 Then my enemy will see; shame will cover her who said to me: “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see her ruin; now she will become something to be trampled, like mud in the streets.
7:11 A day for the building of your walls! On that day, the boundary will be distant.
7:12 On that day, they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
7:13 And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, because of the fruit of their actions.
7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the sheep of your inheritance, those dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as a long time ago.
7:15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show Israel wonderful things.
7:16 Nations will see and be ashamed of all their strength; they will cover their mouths; their ears will be deaf.
7:17 They will lick dust like the snake, like things that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will dread and fear you!
7:18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity, overlooking the sin of the few remaining for his inheritance? He doesn’t hold on to his anger forever; he delights in faithful love.
7:19 He will once again have compassion on us; he will tread down our iniquities. You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea.
7:20 You will provide faithfulness to Jacob, faithful love to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors a long time ago.
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