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¹ Woe is me! For I have become
    ^(a)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
    as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
    no ^(b)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
^2 (c)The godly has perished from the earth,
    and ^(d)there is no one upright among mankind;
^(e)they all lie in wait for blood,
    and ^(f)each hunts the other with a net.
^3 (g)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
    ^(h)the prince and ⁽ⁱ⁾the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
    thus they weave it together.
⁴ The best of them is ^(j)like a brier,
    the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of ^(k)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
    ^(l)now their confusion is at hand.
^5 (m)Put no trust in a neighbor;
    have no confidence in a friend;
guard ⁽ⁿ⁾the doors of your mouth
    from her who lies in your arms;^[a]
6 for ^(o)the son treats the father with contempt,
    the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
    ^(p)a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
⁷ But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
    ^(q)I will wait for the God of my salvation;
    my God will hear me.

^8 (r)Rejoice not over me, O ^(s)my enemy;
    ^(t)when I fall, I shall rise;
^(u)when I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be a light to me.
^9 (v)I will bear the indignation of the Lord
    because I have sinned against him,
until ^(w)he pleads my cause
    and executes judgment for me.
^(x)He will bring me out to the light;
    I shall look upon his vindication.
¹⁰ Then ^(y)my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who ^(z)said to me,
    "Where is the Lord your God?"
^(aa)My eyes will look upon her;
    now she will be trampled down
    ^(ab)like the mire of the streets.

^11 (ac)A day for the building of your walls!
    In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
¹² In that day they^[b] will come to you,
    ^(ad)from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to ^(ae)the River,^{[c]
    (af)}from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
¹³ But ^(ag)the earth will be desolate
    because of its inhabitants,
    for the fruit of their deeds.

^14 (ah)Shepherd your people ^(ai)with your staff,
    the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
    ^(aj)in the midst of ^(ak)a garden land;^[d]
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
    as in the days of old.
^15 (al)As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
    I will show them^[e] marvelous things.
^16 (am)The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
^(an)they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
    their ears shall be deaf;
^17 (ao)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
^(ap)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    ^(aq)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

^18 (ar)Who is a God like you, ^(as)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    ^(at)for the remnant of his inheritance?
^(au)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.
¹⁹ He will ^(av)again have compassion on us;
    ^(aw)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
^(ax)You will cast all our^[f] sins
    into the depths of the sea.
^20 (ay)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
^(az)as you have sworn to our fathers
    from the days of old.