Wait Upon Yahweh

• like the gatherings of summer,
• like the gleanings of the grape harvest,
• when there is no cluster of grapes to eat
  • or early ripened fruit that my soul desires.
  • 2 The faithful person has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind.
• All of them lie in wait;
  • each hunts his brother with a net.
  • 3 Their hands are upon evil, to do it well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe,
• and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
  • and they weave it together.
  • 4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.
• The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come;
  • now their confusion will come.
  • 5 Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend.
• Guard the doorways of your mouth
  • from the one who lies in your lap.
  • 6 For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother,
• a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
  • the enemies of a man are the men of his own house.
  • 7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation.
  • My God will hear me.
  • 8 You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up;
• when I sit in darkness
  • Yahweh will be a light for me.
  • 9 I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him,
• until he pleads my cause
  • and executes my justice.
• He will bring me out to the light;
  • I will see his righteousness.
  • 10 Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me,
• “Where is Yahweh your God?”
  • My eyes will look upon her;
• now she will become a trampling place,
  • like mud in the streets.
  • 11 A day for building your walls; on that day he will extend your boundary.
  • 12 On that day he will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
• and from Egypt to the River,
  • and from sea to sea
  • and mountain to mountain.
  • 13 But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants,
  • for the fruit of their deeds.
  • 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance,
• those dwelling alone in a forest
  • in the midst of Carmel.
• Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
  • as in the days of old.
  • 15 As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt
  • I will show him wondrous things.
  • 16 The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might.
• They will lay the hand on the mouth;
  • their ears will be deaf.
  • 17 They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth.
• They will come trembling from their strongholds
  • to Yahweh our God.
  • Let them fear and be afraid of you.
  • 18 Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance?
• He does not retain his anger forever,
  • for he delights in loyal love.
  • 19 He will again have compassion[fn] on us; he will trample our iniquities.
• And you will hurl all their sins
  • in the depths of the sea.
  • 20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham,
• as you have sworn to our ancestors[fn]
  • from the days of old.