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Disappointment turned to hope

1ALAS! I am now like the last gatherings of summer fruit, the last gleanings of the vintage, when there are no grapes left to eat, none of those early figs I love so much.

2The faithful have vanished from the land; not one honest person is to be found. All who remain lie in wait to do murder; each one hunts his kinsman with a net.

3They are bent on devising wrong -- the grasping officer, the venal judge, and the powerful man who follows his own desires.

4Their goodness is twisted like rank weeds and their honesty like briars. The day of their punishment has come; now confusion seizes them.

5Put no trust in a neighbour, no confidence in a close friend. Seal your lips even from your wife whom you love.

6Son maligns father, daughter rebels against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law, and a person's enemies are found under his own roof.

7But I shall watch for the LORD, I shall wait for God my saviour; my God will hear me.

8My enemies, do not exult over me. Though I have fallen, I shall rise again; though I live in darkness, the LORD is my light.

9Because I have sinned against the LORD, I must bear his anger, until he champions my cause and gives judgement for me, until he brings me into the light, and with gladness I see his justice.

10When my enemies see it, they are confounded, those who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” I shall gloat over them; let them be trampled like mud in the streets.

11That will be a day for rebuilding your walls, a day when your boundaries will be extended,

12a day when your people will return to you, from Assyria to Egypt, from Egypt to the Euphrates, from every sea and every mountain.

13The earth will be a waste because of its inhabitants; this will be as their deeds deserve.

14Shepherd your people with your crook, the flock that is your own, that lives apart on a moor with meadows all around; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in days gone by.

15Show us miracles as in the days when you came out of Egypt.

16Let nations see and be confounded by their impotence, let them keep their mouths shut tight, let their ears be stopped.

17May they lick the dust like snakes, like creatures that crawl on the ground. Let them come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; let them approach with awe and fear.

18Who is a god like you? You take away guilt, you forgive the sins of the remnant of your people. You do not let your anger rage for ever, for to be merciful is your true delight.

19Once more you will show us compassion and wash away our guilt, casting all our sins into the depths of the sea.

20You will show faithfulness to Jacob, unfailing mercy to Abraham, as you swore to our forefathers in days gone by.


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