Micah 7

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1. 1How miserable I am! I'm like someone searching for fruit after the harvest, like picking through a vineyard after the grapes have been gathered. There's not a single cluster to eat. My soul craves the first ripe fruit.
2. 2The godly have vanished from the land, and there isn't an upright person left. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other down like prey caught in a net.
3. 3Their hands are skilled at doing evil. The ruler demands bribes, the judge sells his verdict, and the powerful dictate whatever wickedness they want — and together they scheme to make it happen.
4. 4The best of them is like a brier, and the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. But the day your watchmen warned about — the day of your punishment — has arrived. Now comes their confusion.
5. 5Do not trust a friend, do not put confidence in a guide; guard your words even from her who lies in your arms.
6. 6Sons treat their fathers with contempt, daughters rebel against their mothers, and daughters-in-law turn against their mothers-in-law. A man's enemies are the people in his own household.
7. 7But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
8. 8Don't gloat over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
9. 9I 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 into the light, and I will see his righteousness.
10. 10Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover the one who taunted me, saying, "Where is the LORD your God?" I will watch it happen — she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
11. 11The day is coming when your walls will be rebuilt, and on that day the decree will be far removed.
12. 12On that day, he will come to you from Assyria, from the fortified cities, from the fortress to the river, from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13. 13But first, the land will become desolate because of the people living in it — the consequence of their actions.
14. 14Shepherd your people with your staff, LORD — the flock that belongs to you. They live alone in a forest, surrounded by fertile pastureland. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as they did in the days of old.
15. 15"Just as I did when you came out of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."
16. 16The nations will see and be confounded by all their might; they will lay their hands on their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
17. 17They will lick the dust like a serpent, crawling out of their hiding places like creatures of the earth. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
18. 18Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the rebellion of the remnant who belong to him? He does not stay angry forever, because he delights in mercy.
19. 19He will turn again and have compassion on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20. 20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and mercy to Abraham, just as you swore to our ancestors in the days of old.