Micah 7
The Prophet Acknowledges Injustice
1 Woe to me! For I am
Like harvests of summer fruit, like gleanings of agrapes.
There is not a cluster of grapes left to eat,
Nor an bearly fig, which ▼
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I crave. 2 The ▼
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godly person has eperished from the land, And there is no upright person among mankind.
All of them lie in wait for fbloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a gnet.
3 As for evil, both hands do it hwell.
The leader asks for a ibribe, also the judge,
And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul;
So they plot it together.
4 The best of them is like a jthorn bush,
The most upright like a kthorn hedge.
The day ▼
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when you post your watchmen, Your mpunishment is coming.
Then their nconfusion will occur.
5 Do not otrust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a close friend.
Guard ▼
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your lips From her who lies ▼
▼Lit on your chest
in your arms. 6 For rson disavows father,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
sA person’s enemies are the people of his own household.
God Is the Source of Salvation and Light
7 But as for me, I will tbe on the watch for the Lord;
I will uwait for the God of my salvation.
My vGod will hear me.
8 wDo not rejoice over me, xenemy of mine.
Though I fall I will yrise;
Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a zlight for me.
9 I will endure the rage of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He aapleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the ablight,
And I will look at His ▼
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adrighteousness. 10 Then my enemy will see,
And shame will cover her who aesaid to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look at her;
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At that time she will ▼▼Lit become a trampled place
be ahtrampled down Like mud of the streets.
11 It will be a day for aibuilding your walls.
On that day your boundary will be extended.
12 It will be a day when ▼
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they will akcome to you From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the Euphrates River,
Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
13 And the earth will become a alwasteland because of her inhabitants,
On account of the amfruit of their deeds.
14 anShepherd Your people with Your aoscepter,
The flock of Your ▼
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possession Which lives by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of ▼
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a fruitful field. Let them feed in arBashan and Gilead
asAs in the days of old.
15 “As in the days when you went out from the land of Egypt,
I will show ▼
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auyou miracles.” 16 Nations avwill see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will awput their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.
17 They will axlick up dust like a snake,
Like ▼
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azreptiles of the earth. They will come batrembling out of their ▼
▼Or prisons
fortresses; To the Lord our God they will come in bctrepidation,
And they will be afraid of You.
18 Who is a God like You, who bdpardons wrongdoing
And passes over a rebellious act of the beremnant of His ▼
▼Or inheritance
possession? He does not bgretain His anger forever,
Because He bhdelights in mercy.
19 He will again take pity on us;
biHe will trample on our wrongdoings.
Yes, You will bjcast all ▼
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their sins Into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give ▼
▼Or faithfulness
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bmtruth to Jacob And favor to Abraham,
Which You bnswore to our forefathers
From the days of old.
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