1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like asap (one) who gathers the qayatz (summer) fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no ashakawal (cluster) of grapes to akal (eat). My napash (soul) awah (desires) to eat the early fig.
2 The chasayad (godly) man abad (destroy / perish) perished out of the aratz (Earth/land), and there is no one yashar (upright) among adam (men). They all lie in arab (wait) for dam (blood); every ayash (man / husband) yatzawadaw (hunts) his ach (brother/kinsman) with a charam (net).
3 Their kapayam (hands) are on that which is rai (evil) to yatab (do) it diligently. The shar (prince / ruler) and shapat (judge / judgement) shaal (ask) for a bribe; and the powerful dabar (word / matter) dictates the hawah (calamity / destruction) napash (soul) of his ibath (soul). Thus they conspire together.
4 The tawab (good / proper function) of them is like a chadaq (brier). The most yashar (upright) is worse than a masawakah (thorn) hedge. The yawam (day) of your watchmen, even your paqadah (visitation), bawaa (bring) come; now is the time of their mabawakah (confusion).
5 Don't aman (believe / have faith) in a neighbor. Don't batach (put) confidence in a rai (neigbor/another person). With the shakab (woman) lying in your embrace, be careful of the pathachay (words) of your pah (mouth)!
6 For the ban (son) dishonors the ab (father), the banath (daughter) qawam (rise up) up against her am (mother), the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a anashay (mans) ayabay (enemies) are the ban (son) of his own bayath (house).
7 But as for me, I will tzapah (watchman / keep watch) to Yahawah (). I will yachal (wait) for the Alahayam () of my yashai (salvation). My Alahayam () will shamai (hearken / hear) me.
8 Don't shamach (rejoice) against me, my ayab (enemy). When I napal (fall / be cast down), I will qawam (rise up). When I yashab (inhabit/dwell) in chashak (darkness), Yahawah () will be a awar (light) to me.
9 I will nashaa (lift) the zaip (indignation) of Yahawah (), because I have chataa (sinned) against him, until he rayab (pleads) my case, and ishah (make) mashapat (judgment) for me. He will yatzaa (go out / come out) me forth to the awar (light). I will raah (see) his tzadaqah (righteousness).
10 Then my ayab (enemy) will raah (see) it, and bawashah (shame) will kasah (cover) her who amar (spoke) to me, where is Yahawah () your Alahayam ()? Then my enemy will raah (see) me and will cover her shame. Now she will be maramas (trodden) down like the tayat (mire) of the chawatzawath (streets).
11 A yawam (day) to banah (build) your gadar (walls)— In that yawam (day), he will extend your boundary.
12 In that yawam (day) they will bawaa (bring) to you from Ashawar (Assyria) and the iray (cities) of Matzawar (Egypt), and from Matzawar (Egypt) even to the nahar (river), and from yam (sea/waters) to yam (sea/waters), and har (mountain) to har (mountain).
13 Yet the aratz (Earth/land) will be shamamah (desolate) because of those who live in it, for the paray (fruit) of their mailal (doings).
14 Raih (shepherd) your im (nation / people) with your shabat (staff), the tzaan (flock) of your nachalah (heritage), who live by themselves in a yair (forest), in the thawak (midst) of Karamal (fertile) pasture land, let them raih (feed); in Bashan (Bashan) and Galaid (Gilead), as in the yamay (days) of iwalam (eternity).
15 “As in the yamay (days) of your yatzaa (go out / come out) forth out of the aratz (Earth/land) of Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt), I will show them palaa (be wonderful / extraordinary / marvelous) things.”
16 The gawayam (heathen) will raah (see / saw) and be bawash (ashamed) of all their gabawarah (might). They will shawam (place / establish / appoint) their yad (hand) on their pah (mouth). Their azan (ear) will be charash (deaf).
17 They will lachak (lick) the ipar (dust) like a nachash (serpent). Like crawling things of the aratz (Earth/land) they shall come ragaz (trembling) out of their dens. They will come with yaraa (fear / be afraid) to Yahawah () our Alahayam (), and will be yaraa (fear / be afraid) because of you.
18 Who is a Al like you, who nashaa (lift) iwan (guilt/iniquity), and passes over the disobedience of the shaarayath (remnant) of his nachalah (heritage)? He doesn't chazaq (retain) his ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting) id (until / as far as), because he chapatz (delights) in loving chasad (grace).
19 He will again racham (show mercy / love) compassion on us. He will tread our iwan (guilt/iniquity) under foot; and you will shalak (cast) all their chataah (sin) into the matzalawath (depths) of the yam (sea/waters).
20 You will nathan (give) amath (truth) to Yaiqab (Jacob - Patriarch), and chasad (grace) to Abaraham (Abraham - Patriarch), as you have shabai (swear / take oath) to our ab (father) from the yamay (days) of qadam (old).