5. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't put your faith in your friends. Be careful of what you say even to your own wife.
6. Sons don't honor their fathers. Daughters refuse to obey their mothers. Daughters-in-law are against their mothers-in-law. A man's enemies are the members of his own family.
7. So I will look to the Lord. I'll put my trust in God my Savior. He will hear me.
8. The people of Jerusalem say, "Don't laugh when we suffer, you enemies of ours! We have fallen. But we'll get up. Even though we sit in the dark, the Lord will give us light.
9. We've sinned against the Lord. So he is angry with us. That will continue until he takes up our case. Then he'll do what is right for us. He'll bring us out into the light. Then we'll see him save us.
10. The people of Nineveh will see it too. And they will be put to shame. After all, they said to us, 'Where is the Lord your God?' But we will see them destroyed. Soon they will be stomped on like mud in the streets."
11. People of Jerusalem, the time will come when your walls will be rebuilt. Land will be added to your territory.