Berean Standard Bible
- 1 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
- 2 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- 3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- 4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
- 5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- 6 For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the members of his own household.
- 7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- 8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be my light.
- 9 Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of Yahweh, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
- 10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame-she who said to me, "Where is Yahweh your God?" My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
- 11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come-the day for extending your boundary.
- 12 On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
- 13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
- 14 Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
- 15 As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
- 16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
- 17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of Yahweh our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
- 18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance-who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- 19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
