| 章 |
| 7:1 |
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.
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| 7:2 |
The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men;they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.
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| 7:3 |
Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently;the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;thus they weave it together.
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| 7:4 |
The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come;now their confusion is at hand.
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| 7:5 |
Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend;guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
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| 7:6 |
for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
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| 7:7 |
But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation;my God will hear me.
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| 7:8 |
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;when I fall, I shall rise;when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
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| 7:9 |
I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light;I shall behold his deliverance.
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| 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 gloat over her;now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
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| 7:11 |
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
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| 7:12 |
In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
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| 7:13 |
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
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| 7:14 |
Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land;let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
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| 7:15 |
As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.
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| 7:16 |
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;they shall lay their hands on their mouths;their ears shall be deaf;
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| 7:17 |
they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth;they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.
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| 7:18 |
Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.
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| 7:19 |
He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
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| 7:20 |
Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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