[7:1] It's hopeless! I am like a hungry person who finds no fruit left on the trees and no grapes on the vines. All the grapes and all the tasty figs have been picked.
[7:2] There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.
[7:3] They are all experts at doing evil. Officials and judges ask for bribes. The influential people tell them what they want, and so they scheme together.
[7:4] Even the best and most honest of them are as worthless as weeds. The day has come when God will punish the people, as he warned them through their watchmen, the prophets. Now they are in confusion.
[7:5] Don't believe your neighbor or trust your friend. Be careful what you say even to your husband or wife.
[7:6] In these times sons treat their fathers like fools, daughters oppose their mothers, and young women quarrel with their mothers-in-law; your enemies are the members of your own family.
[7:7] But I will watch for the Lord; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.