Woe is me!
for I am as when they have gathered the summer
fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage:
there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the
firstripe fruit.
02 The good man is perished out of the earth: and
there is none upright among men: they all lie in
wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother
with a net.
03 That they may do evil with both hands
earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge
asketh for a reward; and the great man, he
uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it
up.
04 The best of them is as a brier: the most
upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of
thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall
be their perplexity.
05 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not
confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy
mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
06 For the son dishonoureth the father, the
daughter riseth up against her mother, the
daughter in law against her mother in law; a
man's enemies are the men of his own house.
07 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will
wait for the God of my salvation: my God will
hear me.
08 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I
fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the
Lord shall be a light unto me.
09 I will bear the indignation of the Lord,
because I have sinned against him, until he plead
my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will
bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold
his righteousness.
10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and
shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where
is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her:
now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the
streets.
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11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in
that day shall the decree be far removed.
12 In that day also he shall come even to thee
from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and
from the fortress even to the river, and from sea
to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate
because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit
of their doings.
14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of
thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the
wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in
Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
15 According to the days of thy coming out of the
land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous
things.
16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all
their might: they shall lay their hand upon their
mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they
shall move out of their holes like worms of the
earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
and shall fear because of thee.
18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the
remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his
anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion
upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the
sea.
20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the
mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our
fathers from the days of old.
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