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Woe to me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my being desires.
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The faithful ish has perished from the land, and there is none upright among Adam. All of them lie in wait for blood. Each ish hunts his brother with a net.
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Their hands are upon evil to do it well. The ruler asks, and the judge seeks a bribe, and the great one speaks the desire of his being, and together they weave it.
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The best of them is like a thorn, the most upright like a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, your visitation, has come. Now shall be their confusion.
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Do not trust in a companion. Do not rely upon a friend. From her who lies in your bosom, guard the openings of your mouth.
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For son dishonors father, daughter rises against mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. The enemies of an ish are the men of his own house.
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But I, I will look to Yahuah. I will wait for the Elohim of my salvation. My Elohim will hear me.
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Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I dwell in darkness, Yahuah is light to me.
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I will bear the wrath of Yahuah, because I have sinned against Him, until He contends my controversy and executes my Judgment. He will bring me out to the light. I shall see His Righteousness.
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And my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her, she who said to me: “Where is Yahuah your Elohim?” My eyes shall see her. Now she shall be trampled like mud of the streets.
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A day to build your walls— in that day the boundary shall be far removed.
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In that day they shall come to you from Ashshur and the cities of Mitzrayim, from Mitzrayim even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.
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Yet the land shall become desolate because of its inhabitants, because of the fruit of their deeds.
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Shepherd Your People with Your staff, the flock of Your Inheritance, dwelling alone in a forest, in the midst of Karmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilad, as in days of old.
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“As in the days when you came out from the land of Mitzrayim, I will show him wonders.”
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The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might. They shall place their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall become deaf.
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They shall lick dust like the serpent. Like creeping things of the earth, they shall come trembling from their strongholds. They shall turn in dread to Yahuah our Elohim, and they shall fear because of You.
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Who is an El like You, bearing crookedness and passing over transgression for the remnant of His Inheritance? He does not hold His anger forever, because He delights in Covenant-Faithfulness.
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He will return and have compassion upon us. He will subdue our crookednesses. And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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You will give truth to Yaaqov, Covenant-Faithfulness to Avraham, which You swore to our fathers from days of old.