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\c 7
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\q
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\v 1 Woe is me!
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\q For me it is like when the harvest of summer fruit is over,
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\q and also even the gleaning of the left-over grapes in the vineyards:
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\q There are no more clusters of fruit to be found,
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\q but I still crave first ripe figs.
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\q
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\v 2 The godly man has perished from the earth;
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\q there is no one left who is upright among the people.
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\q They all lie in wait to shed others' blood;
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\q everyone and his brother hunt someone with a net.
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\q
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\v 3 Their hands are very good at doing harm:
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\q the ruler asks for money,
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\q the judge is ready for bribes,
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\q and the powerful man is saying to others what he wants to obtain.
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\q Thus they plot together.
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\q
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\v 4 The best of them is like briers,
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\q the most upright is a hedge of thorns.
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\q It is the day foretold by your watchmen,
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\q the day of your punishment.
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\q Now their confusion has arrived.
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\q
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\v 5 Do not trust any neighbor;
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\q put no confidence in any friend.
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\q Be careful about what you say
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\q even to the woman who lies in your arms.
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\q
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\v 6 For a son dishonors his father,
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\q a daughter rises up against her mother,
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\q and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
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\q A man’s enemies are the people of his own house.
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\p
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\q
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\v 7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh.
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\q I will wait for the God of my salvation;
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\q my God will hear me.
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\q
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\v 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy.
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\q After I fall,
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\q I will rise.
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\q When I sit in darkness,
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\q Yahweh will be a light for me.
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\q
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\v 9 Because I sinned against Yahweh,
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\q I will bear his rage
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\q until he pleads my cause,
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\q and executes judgment for me.
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\q He will bring me to the light,
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\q and I will see him rescue me in his justice.
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\q
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\v 10 Then my enemy will see it,
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\q and shame will cover the one who said to me,
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\q "Where is Yahweh your God?"
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\q My eyes will look at her;
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\q she will be trampled down like the mud in the streets.
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\q
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\v 11 A day to build your walls will come;
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\q on that day the boundaries will be extended very far.
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\q
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\v 12 On that day your people will come to you,
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\q from Assyria and the cities in Egypt,
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\q from Egypt to the Great River,
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\q from sea to sea,
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\q and from mountain to mountain.
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\q
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\v 13 And those lands will be abandoned
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\q because of the people who are living there now,
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\q because of the fruit of their actions.
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\p
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\q
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\v 14 Shepherd your people with your rod,
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\q the flock of your inheritance.
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\q Even though they are living alone
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\q in a forest by Mount Carmel,
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\q let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
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\q as in ancient days.
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\q
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\v 15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
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\q I will show them wonders.
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\q
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\v 16 The nations will see and be ashamed
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\q of all their power.
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\q They will put their hands on their mouths;
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\q their ears will be deaf.
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\q
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\v 17 They will lick the dust like a snake,
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\q like creatures that crawl on the earth.
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\q They will come out of their dens with fear;
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\q they will come with fear to you, Yahweh our God,
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\q and they will be afraid because of you.
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\p
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\q
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\v 18 Who is a God like you,
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\q you who take away sin,
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\q you who pass over the transgression
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\q of the remnant of your inheritance?
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\q You do not keep your anger forever,
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\q because you love to show us your covenant faithfulness.
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\q
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\v 19 You will again have compassion on us;
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\q you will trample our iniquities under your feet.
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\q You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.
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\q
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\v 20 You will give truth to Jacob
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\q and covenant faithfulness to Abraham,
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\q as you swore to our ancestors in ancient days.
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