7:1 Woe to me! for I have become like the leavings of summer fruit, like the gleanings when the vintage is finished — there isn’t a cluster worth eating, no early-ripened fig that appeals to me.
7:2 The godly have been destroyed from the land, there is no one upright among humankind. They all lie in wait for blood, each hunts his brother with a net.
7:3 Their hands do evil well. The prince makes his request, the judge grants it for a price, and the great man expresses his evil desires — thus they weave it together.
7:4 The best of them is a briar, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The time of your watchmen — of your punishment — has come; now they will be confused.
7:5 Don’t trust in your neighbor; don’t put confidence in a close friend; shut the gates of your mouth even from [your wife], lying there with you in bed.
7:6 For a son insults his father, a daughter rises against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a person’s enemies are the members of his own household.
7:7 But as for me, I will look to Adonai, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
7:8 Enemies of mine, don’t gloat over me! Although I have fallen, I will rise; though I live in the dark, Adonai is my light.
7:9 I will endure Adonai’s rage, because I sinned against him; until he pleads my cause and judges in my favor. Then he will bring me out to the light, and I will see his justice.
7:10 My enemies will see it too, and shame will cover those who said to me, “Where is Adonai your God?” I will gloat over them, as they are trampled underfoot like mud in the streets.
7:11 That will be the day for rebuilding your walls, a day for expanding your territory,
7:12 a day when [your] people will come [back] to you from Ashur and from the cities of Egypt, from Egypt and from as far as the Euphrates River, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
7:13 The earth will be desolate for those living in it, as a result of their deeds.
7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, who live alone, like a forest in the middle of a fertile pasture. Let them feed in Bashan and Gil‘ad, as they did in days of old.
7:15 “As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them wonders.”
7:16 The nations will see and be put to shame, in spite of all their power. They will cover their mouths with their hands, and their ears will be deafened.
7:17 They will lick the dust like snakes; they will emerge from their fortresses trembling like reptiles that crawl about on the earth; they will come with fear to Adonai our God, afraid because of you.
7:18 Who is a God like you, pardoning the sin and overlooking the crimes of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in grace.
7:19 He will again have compassion on us, he will subdue our iniquities. You will throw all their sins into the depths of the sea.
7:20 You will show truth to Ya‘akov and grace to Avraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors since days of long ago.
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