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1You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you.
Why does the way of the wicked succeed?
2Not only do you plant them, they take root.
You are near in their mouths,
3But you, O Yahweh, you know me,
Tear them apart like sheep for the slaughtering,
4How long will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up,[#Literally “Until when”]
The animals and the birds are swept away,
5“If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary,
If you have fallen in a peaceful land,
6For even your relatives, and the house of your father,
even they call loudly after you.
7I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance.
8My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest.
9The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me,
Go, gather all of the animals of the field,
10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard,
They have made my pleasant field
11They have made it a desolation.
All the land is made desolate,
12Upon all the barren heights in the desert destroyers have come,[#Or “wilderness”]
from one end of the land to the other end of the land,
13They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns.
And they will be ashamed of your produce,
14Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: “Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them.
15And then after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.[#Literally “And it will happen”]
16And then, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘as Yahweh lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people.[#Literally “And it will happen”; #Literally “the life of Yahweh”]
17But if they do not listen, then I will completely uproot and destroy that nation.” declares Yahweh.[#Literally “I will drive out the nation that driving out and destroying”; #Literally “declaration of”]