Micah 7

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(Mic 7:1) Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: {there is} no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
(Mic 7:2) The good {man} is perished out of the earth: and {there is} none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
(Mic 7:3) That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge {asketh} for a reward; and the great {man}, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
(Mic 7:4) The best of them {is} as a brier: the most upright {is sharper} than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen {and} thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
(Mic 7:5) Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
(Mic 7:6) For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies {are} the men of his own house.
(Mic 7:7) Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
(Mic 7:8) Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord {shall be} a light unto me.
(Mic 7:9) I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, {and} I shall behold his righteousness.
(Mic 7:10) Then {she that is} mine enemy shall see {it}, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
(Mic 7:11) {In} the day that thy walls are to be built, {in} that day shall the decree be far removed.
(Mic 7:12) {In} that day {also} he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and {from} the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and {from} mountain to mountain.
(Mic 7:13) Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
(Mic 7:14) Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily {in} the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed {in} Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
(Mic 7:15) According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous {things}.
(Mic 7:16) The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay {their} hand upon {their} mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
(Mic 7:17) They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.
(Mic 7:18) Who {is} a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth {in} mercy.
(Mic 7:19) He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
(Mic 7:20) Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, {and} the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
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