ABP - Micah - 7

7:1  Alas, for I became as one gathering stubble in a harvest, and as [2grape gleanings 1one gathering] where there does not exist a cluster of [2grapes 3to eat 1first-ripe], which [2longs after 1my soul]. Woe O soul.

7:2  For [2is destroyed 1the reverent one] from the earth; and [3one keeping straight 4among 5men 1there does not 2exist]. All [2unto 3blood 1adjudicate]; each [2his neighbor 1squeezes out] by oppression;

7:3  [3for 4evil 2their hands 1they prepare]; the ruler asks for gifts, and the judge [2peaceable 3words for bribes 1speaks]. [2the wish 3of his soul 1It is].

7:4  And I will take out their good things, as a moth chews away, and one proceeding by the rule in the day of the watch. Woe, your punishments came, now there shall be their weeping.

7:5  Do not confide in friends; do not hope upon leaders; of your bed-mate watch out to not present anything to her.

7:6  For the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; enemies are all the men, the ones in his own house.

7:7  But I [2upon 3my lord 1will look]; I will wait upon the lord my deliverer. [2will listen to 3me 1My God].

7:8  Rejoice not against me, O my enemy! for I have fallen and I will rise up. For if I shall sit in the darkness, the lord will give light to me.

7:9  The anger of the lord I shall endure, for I sinned against him, until he does justice to my cause, and shall execute my judgment. He shall lead me into the light; I shall see his righteousness.

7:10  And [2shall see 1my enemy] and shall wear shame, saying to me, Where is the lord your God? My eyes shall scrutinize her, now she will be for trampling upon as mud in the ways.

7:11  A day of plastering of brick is your wiping out, and [2shall be thrust away 1your laws] in that day.

7:12  And your cities shall come unto leveling, and into partition by the Assyrians; and [3cities 1your 2fortified] for partitioning from Tyre unto the river, and from sea unto sea, and from mountain unto mountain.

7:13  And [3will be 1the 2land] for extinction with the ones dwelling it, because of the fruits of their practices.

7:14  Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, the ones encamping by themselves in a forest, in the midst of Carmel! They shall feed Bashan, and Gilead, according to the days of the eon.

7:15  And according to the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will show to them wonderful things.

7:16  [2shall see 1Nations] and shall be disgraced, even of all their strength. They shall place hands over their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

7:17  They shall lick dust as serpents dragging on the earth; they shall be confounded in their confinement; by the lord our God they shall be amazed, and shall fear from you.

7:18  What God is as you, removing iniquities and passing over impiety to the remnants of his inheritance? [2is not constrained 3for 4a testimony 1His anger], for [2a wisher 3of mercy 1he is].

7:19  He shall turn and shall pity us; he shall sink our iniquities, and shall throw away into the depths of the sea all our sins.

7:20  He shall give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, in so far as you swore an oath to our fathers, according to the [2days 1former].