2. Faithful people are gone from the earth,and no one is decent.All people lie in ambush to commit murder.They trap each other with nets.
3. Their hands are skilled in doing evil.Officials ask for gifts.Judges accept bribes.Powerful people dictate what they want.So they scheme together.
4. The best of them is like a briar.The most decent person is sharper than thornbushes.The day you thought you would be punished has come.Now is the time you will be confused.
5. Don’t trust your neighbors.Don’t have confidence in ⌊your⌋ friends.Keep your mouth shut even when a woman is lying in your arms.
6. A son treats his father with contempt.A daughter rebels against her mother.A daughter-in-law rebels against her mother-in-law.People’s enemies are the members of their own families.
7. I will look to the Lord.I will wait for God to save me.I will wait for my God to listen to me.
8. Don’t laugh at me, my enemies.Although I’ve fallen, I will get up.Although I sit in the dark, the Lord is my light.
9. I have sinned against the Lord.So I will endure his furyuntil he takes up my cause and wins my case.He will bring me into the light,and I will see his victory.
10. Then my enemies will see this, and they will be covered with shame,because they asked me, “Where is the Lord your God?”Now I look at them.They are trampled like mud in the streets.
11. The day for rebuilding your wallsand extending your borders is coming.
12. When that day comes, your people will come to youfrom Assyria and the cities of Egypt,from Egypt to the Euphrates River,from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.