| 1. Woe is to me, for I am as the last of the figs, like the gleanings of the vintage; there is no cluster to eat; the first ripe fig my soul desires. |
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| 2. The pious have perished from the land, and there is no upright among men; they all lurk for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net. |
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| 3. [In return] for the evil of their hands, do they expect that He will benefit them? The prince asks, and the judge is in the payment, and the great man speaks what is in his heart-and they weave the web. |
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| 4. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright, [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day to which you look forward-your visitation-shall come; now will be their perplexity. |
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| 5. Believe not a friend; trust not a prince; from her who lies in your bosom guard the openings of your mouth. |
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ה. |
| 6. For a son disgraces his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; a daughter-in-law, against her mother- in-law; a man's enemies are the members of his household. |
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| 7. But I will hope in the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God shall hearken to me. |
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| 8. Rejoice not against me, my enemy; although I have fallen, I will rise; although I will sit in darkness, the Lord is a light to me. |
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ח. |
| 9. I will bear the fury of the Lord-for I have sinned against Him-until He pleads my cause and executes justice for me. He shall take me out into the light; I will see His righteousness. |
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| 10. And my enemy shall see, and shame shall cover her who says to me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes shall gaze upon her: now she shall become trodden as the mire of the streets. |
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| 11. "The day to build your walls-that day-its time is way off." |
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יא. |
| 12. It is a day, and he shall come up to you: those from Assyria and the fortified cities, and from the fortress up to the river and the sea from the west, and the dwellers of the mountain. |
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יב. |
| 13. And the land shall become desolate [together] with its inhabitants because of the fruit of their deeds. |
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יג. |
| 14. Lead Your people with Your rod-the flock of Your inheritance who dwell alone, a forest in the midst of a fruitful field-and they shall graze in Bashan and Gilead as in days of yore. |
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יד. |
| 15. As in the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt, I will show him wonders. |
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טו. |
| 16. Nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might-they shall place a hand upon their mouth; their ears shall become deaf. |
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| 17. They shall lick the dust as a snake, as those who crawl on the earth. They shall quake from their imprisonment; they shall fear the Lord, our God, and they shall fear you. |
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| 18. Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not maintain His anger forever, for He desires loving-kindness. |
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| 19. He shall return and grant us compassion; He shall hide our iniquities, and You shall cast into the depths of the sea all their sins. |
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יט. |
| 20. You shall give the truth of Jacob, the loving-kindness of Abraham, which You swore to our forefathers from days of yore. |
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