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Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.</p> <p class="hdg">Israel Looks to the Lord</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>A day to build your walls— In that day, he will extend your boundary.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.</p> <p class="hdg">God's Compassion on Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>"As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/micah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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