| Chapter 7 |
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 |
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. |
| 3 |
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. |
|
4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 |
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation:
my God will hear me. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 |
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. |
|
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. |
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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. |
