AB - Micah - 7

7:1  Alas for me! For I have become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!

7:2  For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

7:3  They prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul;

7:4  therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a rigid rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, your times of vengeance have come; now shall be their lamentations.

7:5  Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of your wife, so as not to commit anything to her.

7:6  For the son dishonors his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies.

7:7  But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Savior: my God will hearken to me.

7:8  Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

7:9  I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause: He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

7:10  And she that is my enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord your God? My eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

7:11  It is the day of brick-making; that day shall be your utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish your ordinances.

7:12  And your cities shall be leveled, and parted among the Assyrians; and your strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

7:13  And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.

7:14  Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Bashan, and in the land of Gilead, as in the days of old.

7:15  And according to the days of your departure out of Egypt shall you see marvelous things.

7:16  The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

7:17  They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

7:18  Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

7:19  He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

7:20  He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers, according to the former days.