4. Even the best of them is like a thornbush;the most honest of them is worse than a prickly plant.The day that your watchmen warned you about has come.Now they will be confused.
5. Don’t believe your neighboror trust a friend.Don’t say anything,even to your wife.
6. A son will not honor his father,a daughter will turn against her mother,and a daughter-in-law will be against her mother-in-law;a person’s enemies will be members of his own family.
7. Israel says, “I will look to the Lord for help.I will wait for God to save me;my God will hear me.
8. Enemy, don’t laugh at me.I have fallen, but I will get up again.I sit in the shadow of trouble now,but the Lord will be a light for me.
9. I sinned against the Lord,so he was angry with me,but he will defend my case in court.He will bring about what is right for me.Then he will bring me out into the light,and I will see him set things right.
10. Then my enemies will see this,and they will be ashamed,those who said to me,‘Where is the Lord your God?’I will look down on them.They will get walked on, like mud in the street.”
11. The time will come when your walls will be built again,when your country will grow.
12. At that time your people will come back to youfrom Assyria and the cities of Egypt,and from Egypt to the Euphrates River,and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
13. The earth will be ruined for the people who live in itbecause of their deeds.
14. So shepherd your people with your stick;tend the flock of people who belong to you.That flock now lives alone in the forestin the middle of a garden land.Let them feed in Bashan and Gileadas in days long ago.