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| Chapter 7
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1 |
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as
the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my
soul desired the firstripe fruit. |
2 | The good man is perished out of the
earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for
blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. |
3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh,
and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth
his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
4 |
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a
thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now
shall be their perplexity. |
5 | Trust
ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors
of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. |
6 |
For the 1son dishonoureth the father, 2the
daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her
mother in law; a man's 3enemies are
the men of his own house.
1
Matt 10:21, Matt 10:35-36,
Mark 13:12,
Luke 12:53,
Luke 21:16
2
Matt 10:36
3
Psalms 41:9,
Psalms 55:12-13, Matt 10:36,
John 13:18
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7 |
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my
God will hear me. |
8 |
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;
when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. |
9 | I will bear the indignation of the
LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause,
and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light,
and I shall behold his righteousness. |
10 | Then she that
is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said
unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now
shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. |
11 |
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the
decree be far removed. |
12 | In
that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the
fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from
sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. |
13 |
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that
dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. |
14 |
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which
dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed
in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. |
15 |
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I
shew unto him marvellous things. |
16 |
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they
shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. |
17 |
They shall lick the 1dust like a serpent, they shall move out
of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our
God, and shall fear because of thee.
1
Gen 3:14,
Isa 65:25
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18 |
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the
transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for
ever, because he delighteth in mercy. |
19 | He
will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our
iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the
sea. |
20 | Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob,
and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers
from the days of old. |