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Micah 7
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
Misery is mine!
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
The godly man has perished out of the earth,
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently.
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
The best of them is like a brier.
The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
Don’t trust in a neighbour.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms (note: Hebrew in your bosom).
For the son dishonours the father,
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household (note: Cited in Matthew 10:35–36; see also Luke 12:53.).
But as for me, I will look to the LORD.
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy.
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD,
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
Then my enemy will see it,
Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
A day to build your walls!
The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates (note: Hebrew the River), from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein,
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
Shepherd your people with your staff,
Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures (note: Or in a woodland, in the midst of Carmel). Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt,
As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might.
Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
They will lick the dust like a serpent.
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion (note: Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.)?
He will again have compassion on us.
He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
You will give truth to Jacob,
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.