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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 ESV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/micah/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Wait for the God of Salvation</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe is me! For I have become</span><br /><span class="indent">as when the summer fruit has been gathered,</span><br /><span class="indent">as when the grapes have been gleaned:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">there is no cluster to eat,</span><br /><span class="indent">no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The godly has perished from the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">and there is no one upright among mankind;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they all lie in wait for blood,</span><br /><span class="indent">and each hunts the other with a net.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;</span><br /><span class="indent">the prince and the judge ask for a bribe,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;</span><br /><span class="indent">thus they weave it together.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The best of them is like a brier,</span><br /><span class="indent">the most upright of them a thorn hedge.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;</span><br /><span class="indent">now their confusion is at hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Put no trust in a neighbor;</span><br /><span class="indent">have no confidence in a friend;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">guard the doors of your mouth</span><br /><span class="indent">from her who lies in your arms;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew bosom">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for the son treats the father with contempt,</span><br /><span class="indent">the daughter rises up against her mother,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;</span><br /><span class="indent">a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But as for me, I will look to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will wait for the God of my salvation;</span><br /><span class="indent">my God will hear me.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;</span><br /><span class="indent">when I fall, I shall rise;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when I sit in darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will be a light to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will bear the indignation of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="indent">because I have sinned against him,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">until he pleads my cause</span><br /><span class="indent">and executes judgment for me.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He will bring me out to the light;</span><br /><span class="indent">I shall look upon his vindication.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then my enemy will see,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shame will cover her who said to me,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Where is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God?”</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My eyes will look upon her;</span><br /><span class="indent">now she will be trampled down</span><br /><span class="indent">like the mire of the streets.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A day for the building of your walls!</span><br /><span class="indent">In that day the boundary shall be far extended.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In that day they<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew he">b</a></sup></span> will come to you,</span><br /><span class="indent">from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and from Egypt to the River,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the Euphrates">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the earth will be desolate</span><br /><span class="indent">because of its inhabitants,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the fruit of their deeds.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Shepherd your people with your staff,</span><br /><span class="indent">the flock of your inheritance,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who dwell alone in a forest</span><br /><span class="indent">in the midst of a garden land;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew of Carmel">d</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">let them graze in Bashan and Gilead</span><br /><span class="indent">as in the days of old.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">I will show them<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew him">e</a></sup></span> marvelous things.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall lay their hands on their mouths;</span><br /><span class="indent">their ears shall be deaf;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">they shall lick the dust like a serpent,</span><br /><span class="indent">like the crawling things of the earth;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;</span><br /><span class="indent">they shall turn in dread to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall be in fear of you.</span></p> <p class="heading">God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">and passing over transgression</span><br /><span class="indent">for the remnant of his inheritance?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He does not retain his anger forever,</span><br /><span class="indent">because he delights in steadfast love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will again have compassion on us;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will tread our iniquities underfoot.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">You will cast all our<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew their">f</a></sup></span> sins</span><br /><span class="indent">into the depths of the sea.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will show faithfulness to Jacob</span><br /><span class="indent">and steadfast love to Abraham,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">as you have sworn to our fathers</span><br /><span class="indent">from the days of old.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>bosom</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Hebrew <i>he</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> That is, <span class="catch-word">the</span> Euphrates<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">of</span> Carmel</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i>him</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Hebrew 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