WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 Chapter 7 Woe is me, for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits. 00:06.640 --> 00:10.060 As the grape-gleanings of the vintage, there is no cluster to eat. 00:10.360 --> 00:12.780 My soul desired the first ripe fruit. 00:13.680 --> 00:17.640 The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. 00:18.380 --> 00:20.140 They all lie in wait for blood. 00:20.740 --> 00:23.460 They hunt every man his brother with a net. 00:24.380 --> 00:29.080 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the 00:29.080 --> 00:33.860 judge asketh for a reward, and the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire. 00:34.160 --> 00:35.180 So they wrap it up. 00:35.780 --> 00:37.540 The best of them is as a briar. 00:37.900 --> 00:40.700 The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. 00:41.460 --> 00:44.220 The day of thy watchman and thy visitation cometh. 00:44.780 --> 00:46.540 Now shall be their perplexity. 00:47.780 --> 00:49.520 Trust ye not in a friend. 00:50.120 --> 00:51.700 Put ye not confidence in a guide. 00:52.280 --> 00:55.380 Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. 00:56.180 --> 01:00.280 For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, 01:00.660 --> 01:03.000 the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 01:03.380 --> 01:06.140 A man's enemies are the men of his own house. 01:07.000 --> 01:08.880 Therefore I will look unto the Lord. 01:09.220 --> 01:11.420 I will wait for the God of my salvation. 01:12.420 --> 01:13.660 My God will hear me. 01:14.700 --> 01:17.440 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy. 01:17.660 --> 01:19.560 When I fall, I shall arise. 01:20.340 --> 01:23.860 When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. 01:24.240 --> 01:28.500 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, 01:29.260 --> 01:32.900 until He plead my cause and execute judgment for me. 01:33.220 --> 01:37.260 He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness. 01:38.460 --> 01:43.340 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto 01:43.340 --> 01:45.940 me, Where is the Lord thy God? 01:46.780 --> 01:48.320 Mine eyes shall behold her. 01:48.880 --> 01:52.060 Now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. 01:52.840 --> 01:57.120 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far 01:57.120 --> 01:57.540 removed. 01:58.680 --> 02:03.580 In that day also He shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified 02:03.580 --> 02:08.320 cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from 02:08.320 --> 02:09.380 mountain to mountain. 02:10.320 --> 02:13.680 Notwithstanding, the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell 02:13.680 --> 02:16.160 therein, for the fruit of their doings. 02:16.860 --> 02:22.000 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in 02:22.000 --> 02:22.340 the wood. 02:22.880 --> 02:28.000 In the midst of Carmel let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 02:28.640 --> 02:32.760 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him 02:32.760 --> 02:33.980 marvelous things. 02:35.260 --> 02:38.600 The nation shall see and be confounded at all their might. 02:38.600 --> 02:41.140 They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. 02:41.740 --> 02:43.180 Their ears shall be deaf. 02:44.140 --> 02:46.220 They shall lick the dust like a serpent. 02:46.660 --> 02:49.460 They shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth. 02:50.060 --> 02:53.800 They shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee. 02:54.840 --> 02:59.940 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression 02:59.940 --> 03:01.080 of the remnant of his heritage? 03:01.960 --> 03:06.140 He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. 03:06.920 --> 03:10.940 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our 03:10.940 --> 03:15.080 iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 03:16.500 --> 03:21.400 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast 03:21.400 --> 03:23.660 sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.