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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Micah 7 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/micah/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/micah/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Micah 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../micah/6.htm" title="Micah 6">◄</a> Micah 7 <a href="../nahum/1.htm" title="Nahum 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/micah/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Great Misery<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as <i>one gathering</i> grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders <i>his way</i> aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks <i>a reward</i>, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a <i>rigid</i> rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house <i>shall be</i> all a man's enemies.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Confession and Comfort<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen <i>yet</i> shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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, <i>and</i> I shall behold his righteousness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where <i>is</i> the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><i>It is</i> the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And thy cities shall be levelled, and parted among the Assyrians; and thy strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Compassion on Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous <i>things</i>.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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 thee.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Who is a God like thee, cancelling 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.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, <i>even</i> all our sins.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../micah/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Micah 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Micah 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nahum/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nahum 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nahum 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>