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1Woe is me! For I have become like one who,[#Isa 24.13; 28.4; Hos 9.10]
after the summer fruit has been gathered,
after the vintage has been gleaned,
finds no cluster to eat;
there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.
2The faithful have disappeared from the land,[#Ps 12.1; Isa 57.1; 59.7; Jer 5.26; Hos 5.1]
and there is no one left who is upright;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and they hunt each other with nets.
3Their hands are skilled to do evil;[#Prov 4.16, 17; Am 5.12; Mic 3.11]
the official and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the powerful dictate what they desire;
thus they pervert justice.
4The best of them is like a brier,[#Isa 10.3; 22.5; Ezek 2.6; 28.24; Hos 9.7; Nah 1.10]
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of their sentinels, of their punishment, has come;
now their confusion is at hand.
5Put no trust in a friend;
have no confidence in a loved one;
guard the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your embrace,
6for the son treats the father with contempt,[#Ezek 22.7; Mt 10.21, 35, 36; Lk 12.53]
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
your enemies are members of your own household.
7But as for me, I will look to the Lord ;[#Ps 4.3; 130.5; Hab 2.1]
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me.
8Do not rejoice over me, my enemies;[#Ps 37.24; Prov 24.17; Isa 9.2; Lam 4.21; #7.8 Heb enemy]
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
9I must bear the indignation of the Lord[#Isa 42.7, 16; 56.1; Lam 3.39, 40]
because I have sinned against him,
until he takes my side
and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light;
I shall see his vindication.
10Then my enemies will see,[#Ps 35.26; Isa 51.23; Zech 10.5; #7.10 Heb enemy]
and shame will cover those who said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see their downfall;
now they will be trodden down
like the mire of the streets.
11A day for the building of your walls![#Isa 54.11; Zeph 2.2]
On that day the boundary shall be far extended.
12On that day they will come to you[#Isa 11.16; 19.23–25]
from Assyria to Egypt
and from Egypt to the River,
from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13But the earth will be desolate[#Isa 3.10, 11; Jer 25.11; Mic 3.4; 6.13]
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their doings.
14Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock that belongs to you,
which lives alone in a forest
in the midst of a garden land;
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
15As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,[#Ex 3.20; Ps 78.12]
show us marvelous things.
16The nations shall see and be ashamed[#Job 21.5; Mic 3.7]
of all their might;
they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
their ears shall be deaf;
17they shall lick dust like a snake,[#Deut 32.24; Ps 18.45; 72.9; Isa 49.23; 59.19]
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their fortresses;
they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
and they shall stand in fear of you.
18Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity[#Ex 34.7, 9; Isa 43.25; Jer 32.41]
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.
19He will again have compassion upon us;[#Isa 38.17; 43.25; Jer 31.34; 50.20]
he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
20You will show faithfulness to Jacob[#Deut 7.8, 12; Lk 1.55, 72]
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
from the days of old.