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Micah 7 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:1 - Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6 - for the son treats the father with contempt, 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.

God Is the Source of Salvation and Light

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:7 - But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 - Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:9 - I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:11 - A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 - Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:15 - As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 - The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:19 - He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:20 - Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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