³ Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate^(A) wrongdoing?^(B)
Destruction and violence^(C) are before me;
    there is strife,^(D) and conflict abounds.

7 What misery is mine!
I am like one who gathers summer fruit
    at the gleaning of the vineyard;
there is no cluster of grapes to eat,
    none of the early figs^(A) that I crave.
² The faithful have been swept from the land;^(B)
    not one^(C) upright person remains.
Everyone lies in wait^(D) to shed blood;^(E)
    they hunt each other^(F) with nets.^(G)
3 Both hands are skilled in doing evil;^(H)
    the ruler demands gifts,
the judge accepts bribes,^(I)
    the powerful dictate what they desire—
    they all conspire together.
⁴ The best of them is like a brier,^(J)
    the most upright worse than a thorn^(K) hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
    the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
    Now is the time of your confusion.^(L)

⁸ Whenever I speak, I cry out
    proclaiming violence and destruction.^(A)
So the word of the Lord has brought me
    insult and reproach^(B) all day long.

² Oh, that I had in the desert^(A)
    a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
    and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,^(B)
    a crowd of unfaithful^(C) people.