7:1 Woe to me! For I am
Like harvests of summer fruit, like gleanings of grapes.
There is not a cluster of grapes left to eat,
Nor an early fig, which ①I crave.
▷ ①Lit my soul desires
7:2 The ①godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among mankind.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.
▷ ①Or faithful
7:3 As for evil, both hands do it well.
The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge,
And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul;
So they plot it together.
7:4 The best of them is like a thorn bush,
The most upright like a thorn hedge.
The day ①when you post your watchmen,
Your punishment is coming.
Then their confusion will occur.
▷ ①Lit of your
7:5 Do not trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a close friend.
Guard ①your lips
From her who lies ②in your arms.
▷ ①Lit the openings of your mouth ②Lit on your chest
7:6 For son disavows father,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
A person’s enemies are the people of his own household.
7:7 But as for me, I will be on the watch for the LORD;
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me.
7:8 Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I live in darkness, the LORD is a light for me.
7:9 I will endure the rage of the LORD
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will look at His ①righteousness.
▷ ①I.e., right dealing
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 at her;
①At that time she will ②be trampled down
Like mud of the streets.
▷ ①Lit Now ②Lit become a trampled place
7:11 It will be a day for building your walls.
On that day your boundary will be extended.
7:12 It will be a day when ①they will come to you
From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the Euphrates River,
Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
▷ ①Lit he
7:13 And the earth will become a wasteland because of her inhabitants,
On account of the fruit of their deeds.
7:14 Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,
The flock of Your ①possession
Which lives by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of ②a fruitful field.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
As in the days of old.
▷ ①Or inheritance ②Or Carmel
7:15 “As in the days when you went out from the land of Egypt,
I will show ①you miracles.”
▷ ①Lit him
7:16 Nations will see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will put their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.
7:17 They will lick up dust like a snake,
Like ①reptiles of the earth.
They will come trembling out of their ②fortresses;
To the LORD our God they will come in trepidation,
And they will be afraid of You.
▷ ①Lit crawling things ②Or prisons
7:18 Who is a God like You, who pardons wrongdoing
And passes over a rebellious act of the remnant of His ①possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
▷ ①Or inheritance
7:19 He will again take pity on us;
He will trample on our wrongdoings.
Yes, You will cast all ①their sins
Into the depths of the sea.
▷ ①Several ancient versions our
7:20 You will give ①truth to Jacob
And favor to Abraham,
Which You swore to our forefathers
From the days of old.
▷ ①Or faithfulness