1Misery is mine!
2The godly man has perished out of the earth,
3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently.
4The best of them is like a brier.
5Don’t trust in a neighbour.
6For the son dishonours the father,
7But as for me, I will look to the LORD.
8Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
9I will bear the indignation of the LORD,
10Then my enemy will see it,
11A day to build your walls!
12In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
13Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein,
14Shepherd your people with your staff,
15“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt,
16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might.
17They will lick the dust like a serpent.
18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
19He will again have compassion on us.
20You will give truth to Jacob,