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7:1  I feel so empty inside— like someone starving for grapes or figs, after the vines and trees have all been picked clean.
7:2  No one is loyal to God; no one does right. Everyone is brutal and eager to deceive everyone else.
7:3  People cooperate to commit crime. Judges and leaders demand bribes, and rulers cheat in court.
7:4  The most honest of them is worse than a thorn patch. Your doom has come! Lookouts sound the warning, and everyone panics.
7:5  Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love.
7:6  Sons refuse to respect their own fathers, daughters rebel against their own mothers, and daughters-in-law despise their mothers-in-law. Your family is now your enemy.
7:7  But I trust the Lord God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer.
7:8  My enemies, don't be glad because of my troubles! I may have fallen, but I will get up; I may be sitting in the dark, but the Lord is my light.
7:9  I have sinned against the Lord. And so I must endure his anger, until he comes to my defense. But I know that I will see him making things right for me and leading me to the light.
7:10  You, my enemies, said, “The Lord God is helpless.” Now each of you will be disgraced and put to shame. I will see you trampled like mud in the street.
7:11  Towns of Judah, the day is coming when your walls will be rebuilt, and your boundaries enlarged.
7:12  People will flock to you from Assyria and Egypt, from Babylonia and everywhere else.
7:13  Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.
7:14  Lead your people, Lord! Come and be our shepherd. Grasslands surround us, but we live in a forest. So lead us to Bashan and Gilead, and let us find pasture as we did long ago.
7:15  I, the Lord, will work miracles just as I did when I led you out of Egypt.
7:16  Nations will see this and be ashamed because of their helpless armies. They will be in shock, unable to speak or hear,
7:17  because of their fear of me, your Lord and God. Then they will come trembling, crawling out of their fortresses like insects or snakes, lapping up the dust.
7:18  Our God, no one is like you. We are all that is left of your chosen people, and you freely forgive our sin and guilt. You don't stay angry forever; you're glad to have pity
7:19  and pleased to be merciful. You will trample on our sins and throw them in the sea.
7:20  You will keep your word and be faithful to Jacob and to Abraham, as you promised our ancestors many years ago.