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Chapter 7
1 Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleans in autumn the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the firstripe figs.
2 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunts his brother to death.
3 The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requires, and the judge is for giving: and the great man has uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.
4 He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of your inspection, your visitation comes: now shall be their destruction.
5 Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of your mouth from her that sleeps in your bosom.
6 For the son dishonoures the father, and the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his own household.
7 But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God my Saviour: my God will hear me.
8 Rejoice not, you, my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.
9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he judge my cause and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.
10 And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who said to me: Where is the Lord your God? My eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.
11 The day shall come, that your walls may be built up: in that day shall the law be far removed.
12 In that day they shall come even from Assyria to you, and to the fortified cities: and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13 And the land shall be made desolate, because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices.
14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance, them that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad according to the days of old.
15 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt I will shew him wonders.
16 The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord our God, and shall fear you.
18 Who is a God like to you, who take away iniquity, and pass by the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delights in mercy.
19 He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.
20 You will perform the truth of Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.