1. On that day the righteous, full of confidence, will stand before those who oppressed them and made light of their labours.
2. They will be amazed to see them safe and will tremble with terrible fear.
3. Then the oppressors will regret what they did, and groaning in anguish they will say to one another:
4. “These are the people we made fun of. We thought they were a joke. What fools we were! We thought they were mad to live in the way they did, and when they died, we didn't honour them.
5. And now here they are, God's own children, with a place of their own among God's people.
6. We were the ones who wandered off the right road. We never lived in the light of righteousness; we never caught the first glimmer of its light.
7. All our lives we wandered across unmarked deserts, instead of following the road which the Lord wanted us to travel. And this lawlessness led us to ruin.