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¹WOE is me. For I have become as when they have gathered the summer fruit, as the grape gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; my soul craves the first ripe fruit. ²The righteous man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother for destruction. ³Their hands are ready to do evil, and they never do good; the governor asks for gold, and the judge says, Give me a bribe; and the prince speaks the desire of his soul. ⁴They have rejected the best part of them, and have become like rags which are eaten by the moth; the day of your watchmen and your salvation is come; but now it will be their mourning. ⁵Do not trust in your friends, put no confidence in your neighbors, guard the words of your mouth from your wife. ⁶For the son curses his father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the members of his own household.

⁷Therefore I will look to Yahvah; I will wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. ⁸Do not rejoice over me, Oh my enemy, because I have fallen; I will rise again; though I sit in darkness, Yahvah will be a light to me. ⁹I will bear the affliction of Yahvah, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and avenges me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I will see his righteousness. ¹⁰Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahvah your God? My eyes will look her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets. ¹¹It is a day to build your walls; it is a day to be lifted up. ¹²It is a day when the people will come to you from Assyria and from the fortified cities and from Tyre and even to the river and from sea to sea, as far as mount Hor. ¹³Nevertheless the land will be desolate to its inhabitants because of the fruit of their actions.

¹⁴Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, who will live alone like sheep in the middle of Carmel; let them feed in Mathnin and Gilead, as in the days of old. ¹⁵As in the day when you came out of the land of Egypt I will again show them marvellous things. ¹⁶The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might; they will lay their hands on their mouth, their ears will be deaf. ¹⁷They will lick the dust like a serpent, they will move out of their holes like worms of the earth; they will tremble and be afraid of Yahvah our God. ¹⁸There is no God like you, who pardons iniquity and removes the sins of the remnant of his inheritance; you do not retain your anger forever, because you delight in mercy. ¹⁹He will turn again and have mercy on us; he will sweep away our iniquity and cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. ²⁰You will grant truth to Jacob and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.