[7:1] Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
[7:2] The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.
[7:3] Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
[7:4] The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
[7:5] Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
[7:6] for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
[7:7] But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
[7:8] Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
[7:9] I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
[7:10] Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
[7:11] A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
[7:12] In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
[7:13] But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.
[7:14] Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
[7:15] As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.
[7:16] The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
[7:17] they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.