Micah 7:5-20 ▼

5 Do not trust in a friend; do not put your? confidence in a companion; from her who lies down in your bosom guard the doors of your mouth.

6 For a son dishonors a father, a daughter rises against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—the enemies of a man are the men of his own house!

7 And I, for YHWH I will watch, I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

8 Do not rejoice, O my enemy, over me when I fall; I will arise; when I sit in the darkness, YHWH is be a light for me.

9 The indignation of YHWH I will bear, because I have sinned against Him, until when He will fight my fight, and execute justice by me; He will bring me forth to the light, and I will look on His righteousness.

10 And she who is my enemy will see, and she will cover her shame—she who said to me, “Where is YHWH your God?” My eyes will look on her; now she will be for trampling like mud in the streets.

11 A day is for building your walls, a day that the limit is removed.

12 And that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

13 And the earth will be as a desolation over those dwelling on it for the fruit of their deeds.

14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage dwelling alone in a woodland in the midst of Carmel; let them find pasture in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 As in the days of your coming out from the land of Egypt, I will make them see wonders.

16 Nations will see, and they will be ashamed of all their might; they will put the hand over the mouth; their ears will become deaf.

17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like the crawling things of the earth; they will come trembling from their enclosures to YHWH our God they will tremble, and they will be afraid of You.

18 Who is a God like You, lifting away iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion.

19 He will turn back, He will have compassion on us, He will subdue our iniquities. And You will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins.

20 You will give forth faithfulness to Jacob, loving devotion to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.