Micah 7:11-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
A Prophecy of Restoration
11 A day for the building of your walls!
On that day the boundary shall be far extended.(A)
12 On that day they will come to you
from Assyria to[a] Egypt
and from Egypt to the River,
from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.(B)
13 But the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their doings.(C)
14 Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock that belongs to you,
which lives alone in a forest
in the midst of a garden land;
let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
15 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
show us[b] marvelous things.(D)
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;(E)
17 they shall lick dust like a snake,
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their fortresses;
they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
and they shall stand in fear of you.(F)
God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.(G)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our[c] sins
into the depths of the sea.(H)
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
from the days of old.(I)
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