7 I’m doomed!
    I’ve become like one who,
        even after the summer fruit has been gathered,
        after the ripened fruits have been collected,
            has no cluster of grapes to eat,
            no ripe fig that I might desire.
² Faithful ones have perished from the land;
        there is no righteous one among humanity.
    All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
        they hunt each other with nets.
³ Their hands are skilled at doing evil.
    Official and judge alike ask for a bribe;
        the powerful speak however they like;
            this is how they conspire.
⁴ The good among them are like a briar;
        those who do the right thing are like a thorny thicket.
            (A day for your lookouts!^[a]
            Your punishment has arrived.
            The confusion of the wicked^[b] is nearby.)
⁵ Don’t rely on a friend;
        put no trust in a companion;
        guard the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your embrace.
⁶ Son disrespects father;
        a daughter rises up against her mother,
        a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
        the enemies of a man are those of his own household.
⁷ But me! I will keep watch for the Lord;
        I will wait for the God of my salvation;
            my God will hear me.

⁸ Do not rejoice^[c] over me, my enemy,
        because when I fall, I will rise;
            if I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.
⁹ I must bear the raging of the Lord,
    for I have sinned against him,
        until he decides my case and provides justice for me.
    He will bring me out into the light;
        I will see by means of his righteousness.
¹⁰     Then my enemy will see;
        shame will cover her who said to me:
            “Where is the Lord your God?”
    My eyes will see her ruin;^[d]
        now she will become something to be trampled,
            like mud in the streets.

¹¹ A day for the building of your walls!
        On that day, the boundary will be distant.
¹²         On that day, they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
            from Egypt to the River,
            from sea to sea,
            and from mountain to mountain.
¹³ And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,
        because of the fruit of their actions.

¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff,
        the sheep of your inheritance,
        those dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel.
    Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as a long time ago.

¹⁵ As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
        I will show Israel wonderful things.

¹⁶ Nations will see and be ashamed of all their strength;
        they will cover their mouths;
        their ears will be deaf.
¹⁷ They will lick dust like the snake,
        like things that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God;
        they will dread and fear you!
¹⁸ Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity,
        overlooking the sin of the few remaining for his inheritance?
    He doesn’t hold on to his anger forever;
        he delights in faithful love.
¹⁹ He will once again have compassion on us;
        he will tread down our iniquities.
You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea.
²⁰ You will provide faithfulness to Jacob, faithful love to Abraham,
        as you swore to our ancestors a long time ago.