| Micah 7:1 |
Woe is me! For I am like gatherings of summer fruit / And like gleanings of the vintage; / There is no cluster to eat, / [Nor] first-ripe fig, which my soul desires. |
| Micah 7:2 |
The godly man has perished from the land, / And there is none upright among men; / They all lie in wait for bloodshed; / They each hunt their brother with a net. |
| Micah 7:3 |
Both hands are [set] upon evil, to do [it] well: / The prince asks [for it,] / And the judge [agrees,] for a reward, / And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul, / And they weave it together. |
| Micah 7:4 |
The best one among them is like a briar; / The most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge. / The day of your watchmen, your visitation, has come; / Now will be their confounding. |
| Micah 7:5 |
Do not trust in a neighbor; / Do not put your confidence in a friend; / Keep the doors of your mouth / From her who lies in your bosom. |
| Micah 7:6 |
For the son treats the father like a fool; / The daughter rises up against her mother, / The daughter-in-law, against her mother-in-law; / A man's enemies are the men of his own house. |
| Micah 7:7 |
But as for me, I will look for Jehovah; / I will wait for the God of my salvation; / My God will hear me. |
| Micah 7:8 |
Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy; / When I fall, I will rise up; / When I sit in the darkness, / Jehovah will be a light to me. |
| Micah 7:9 |
I will bear the indignation of Jehovah-- / For I have sinned against Him-- / Until He plead my cause / And execute justice for me; / He will bring me forth into the light; / I will see His righteousness. |
| Micah 7:10 |
Then my enemy will see / And shame will cover / Her who said to me, / Where is Jehovah your God? / My eyes will see her: / At that time she will become trampled / Like mud in the streets. |
| Micah 7:11 |
A day for building your walls! / In that day the decree will be far away; |
| Micah 7:12 |
In that day they will come even unto you / From Assyria and from the cities of Egypt, / And from Egypt even to the River, / And from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. |
| Micah 7:13 |
But the land will become desolate / Because of the inhabitants in it, due to the fruit of their doings. |
| Micah 7:14 |
Shepherd Your people with Your rod, / The flock of Your inheritance, / Who dwell alone in the forest / In the midst of Carmel; / Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead / As in the days of old. |
| Micah 7:15 |
As in the days of your going forth out from the land of Egypt, / I will show you wonders. |
| Micah 7:16 |
The nations will see and be ashamed / Of all their might; / They will put the hand over the mouth; / Their ears will be deaf. |
| Micah 7:17 |
They will lick the dust like a serpent; / Like crawling things of the earth, / They will come quivering from their enclosed places; / To Jehovah our God / They will turn in fear and be afraid because of You. |
| Micah 7:18 |
Who is a God like You, / Pardoning iniquity / And passing over the transgression / Of the remnant of His inheritance? / He does not retain His anger forever, / For He delights in lovingkindness. |
| Micah 7:19 |
He will again have compassion on us; / He will tread our iniquities underfoot. / And You will cast into the depths of the sea / All their sins. |
| Micah 7:20 |
You will perform truth to Jacob, / And lovingkindness to Abraham, / Which You have sworn to our fathers / From the days of old. |