1 Then shall the righteous one with great assurance confronthis oppressors who set at nought his labors.
2 Seeing this, the wicked shall be shaken with dreadful fear,and be amazed at the unexpected salvation.
3 They shall say among themselves, ruefuland groaning through anguish of spirit:“This is the one whom once we held as a laughingstockand as a type for mockery,
4 fools that we were!His life we accounted madness,and death dishonored.
5 See how he is accounted among the heavenly beings;how his lot is with the holy ones!
6 We, then, have strayed from the way of truth,and the light of righteousness did not shine for us,and the sun did not rise for us.
7 We were entangled in the thorns of mischief and of ruin;we journeyed through trackless deserts,but the way of the Lord we never knew.