Micah 7
The Prophet Acknowledges
1Woe is me! For I amLike the fruit pickers, like the agrape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a bfirst-ripe fig which ▼
▼ Lit my soul
I crave.2The ▼
▼ Or loyal
godly person has eperished from the land,And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for fbloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a gnet.
3Concerning evil, both hands do it hwell.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a ibribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.
4The best of them is like a jbriar,
The most upright like a kthorn hedge.
The day when you post your watchmen,
Your lpunishment will come.
Then their mconfusion will occur.
5Do not ntrust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a friend.
From her who lies in your bosom
Guard ▼
▼ Lit openings of your mouth
your lips.6For pson treats father contemptuously,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
qA man’s enemies are the men of his own household.
God Is the Source of Salvation and Light
7But as for me, I will rwatch expectantly for the Lord;I will swait for the God of my salvation.
My tGod will hear me.
8 uDo not rejoice over me, O vmy enemy.
Though I fall I will wrise;
Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a xlight for me.
9I will bear the indignation of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He ypleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the zlight,
And I will see His ▼
▼ I.e. right dealing
,
abrighteousness.10Then my enemy will see,
And shame will cover her who acsaid to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look on her;
▼
▼ Lit Now
At that time she will ▼▼ Lit become a trampled place
be aftrampled downLike mire of the streets.
11 It will be a day for agbuilding your walls.
On that day will your boundary be extended.
12It will be a day when ▼
▼ Lit he
they will aicome to youFrom Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the ▼
▼ Lit River
Euphrates,Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
13And the earth will become akdesolate because of her inhabitants,
On account of the alfruit of their deeds.
14 amShepherd Your people with Your anscepter,
The flock of Your ▼
▼ Or inheritance
possessionWhich dwells by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of ▼
▼ Or Carmel
a fruitful field.Let them feed in aqBashan and Gilead
arAs in the days of old.
15“As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt,
I will show ▼
▼ Lit him
,
atyou miracles.”16Nations auwill see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will avput their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.
17They will awlick the dust like a serpent,
Like axreptiles of the earth.
They will come aytrembling out of their ▼
▼ Lit fastnesses
fortresses;To the Lord our God they will come in badread
And they will be afraid before You.
18Who is a God like You, who bbpardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the bcremnant of His ▼
▼ Or inheritance
possession?He does not beretain His anger forever,
Because He bfdelights in ▼
▼ Or lovingkindness
unchanging love.19He will again have compassion on us;
bhHe will tread our iniquities under foot.
Yes, You will bicast all ▼
▼ Several ancient versions read our
their sinsInto the depths of the sea.
20You will give ▼
▼ Or faithfulness
,
bltruth to JacobAnd ▼
▼ Or lovingkindness
unchanging love to Abraham,Which You bnswore to our forefathers
From the days of old.
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