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The best of them is like a brier, the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge

Briers and thorns are good for nothing and harm those who touch them. The Israelite rulers and judges did nothing good and harmed people.

the most upright

"those of them who try hardest to do what is good"

It is the day foretold by your watchmen, the day of your punishment

"Their prophets have told them that Yahweh would punish them"

Now is the time of their confusion

"Now is when they do not understand what is happening"