3 They will sing a different tune as they gasp and say to themselves:
4 He’s the one we mocked?! He’s the one we insulted? What idiots we were! We thought his life was madness and his death a disgrace.
5 How is it that he’s now counted among God’s children? How is it that he’s now considered one of the saints?
6 Clearly we were the ones who missed the way to truth. The light that would have shown us the right thing to do hasn’t shone for us. That sun didn’t rise upon us.
7 We got entangled in lawlessness and destruction. We wandered through desolate wildernesses. We didn’t know the Lord’s way.
8 What good did our pride do us? What good were our wealth and pretension?
9 These things have all passed away like a shadow. They’re gone like old news.