Micah 7

Revised Geneva Translation

7 Woe is me, for I am as the summer gatherings, as the grapes of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desired the first ripe fruits.

² The good man has perished from the Earth, and there is no one righteous among men. They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his brother with a net.

³ To make good for the evil of both their hands, the prince asks and the judge judges for a reward. And the great man speaks out the corruption of his soul. So they weave it together.

⁴ The best of them is as a brier. And the most righteous of them is sharper than a thorn-hedge. The day of your watchmen and your visitation comes. Then shall be their confusion.

⁵ Do not trust in a friend, or put confidence in a counselor. Keep the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your bosom.

⁶ For the son reviles the father. 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.

⁷ Therefore, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for God my Savior. My God will hear me.

⁸ Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy! Though I fall, I shall rise. When I shall sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

⁹ I will bear the wrath of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. And I shall see His righteousness.

¹⁰ Then she who is my enemy shall look upon it. And shame shall cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes shall behold her. Now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.

¹¹ This is the day that your walls shall be built. This day shall drive the decree far away.

¹² Also at this time they shall come to you from Assyria and the strong cities, and from the strongholds to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

¹³ Nevertheless, the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruits of their inventions.

¹⁴ Feed Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your heritage (who dwell solitarily in the forest) in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.

¹⁵ “According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show to him marvelous things.”

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be confounded for all their power. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf.

¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent. They shall move out of their holes like worms. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of You.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, Who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage! He does not retain His wrath forever, because mercy pleases Him.

¹⁹ He will turn again and have compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sins into the bottom of the sea.

²⁰ You will perform truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers in days of old.