Micah 7

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

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1I’m so depressed and disappointed, like a hungry man who went to the field after the harvest had been gathered and found nothing remaining, not even the gleanings— nor a single cluster of grapes nor any of those firstfruit figs I love.

2The godly have vanished from the land: there is not a decent person left. They are all out for each other’s blood, they hunt each other with a net.

3Concerning evil, both hands do it well. Officials and judges ask for bribes, the man in power pronounces whatever he pleases, and the prominent plot as one.

4The best and brightest is like a briar bush, the most honest of them like a thorn hedge. Now here comes the punishment your prophets proclaimed. Confusion confronts you!

5Don’t dare to trust in a neighbor or place your confidence in a friend. Watch your words even with the wife you love.

6For the son insults his father, the daughter rebels against her mother, and the daughter-in-law quarrels with her mother-in-law. One’s enemies come from within your own household.

7But as for me, I will keep watching for Yahweh to break through. I will wait for the God who will save me, and I know my God will hear my cry.

8Listen, my enemy. Don’t gloat over me when I fall, for I will get back up even stronger. Whenever I feel darkness around me, Yahweh himself will be the light that surrounds me.

9I must endure Yahweh ’s anger for a while because I have sinned against him. Yet he will still defend my cause and right every wrong done to me. He will expose it all and bring me out into the light, and I will experience firsthand his vindication.

10When my enemy sees this, she will be disgraced and covered with shame— she who sneered, “Where is this God of yours, Yahweh?” I’ll see it with my own eyes as she is trampled down like mud in the streets.

11What a day that will be! A day for rebuilding your walls! A day for expanding your borders!

12A day when people come to you from everywhere— from the cities of Assyria, Egypt, and Tyre and all the way from the river Euphrates, from across the seas, and from every mountainous land.

13Those lands will become desolate because of the corruption of their inhabitants.

14Our kind Shepherd, watch over us, the flock that is your special inheritance. With your staff, lead your people to pasture. For we are like a flock confined to live in a forest with meadowland all around us. Let us graze again in the fertile fields of Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

15“I will show you mighty miracles as in the days when you came out of Egypt.”

16When the nations see your miracles, they will be ashamed, seeing that their power counts for nothing. They will put their hands over their mouths, too dumbfounded by your might to even speak, and their ears will become deaf.

17Let them lick the dust like snakes, like the crawling things of the earth. Let them come slinking out of their strongholds, trembling in terror before you, Yahweh.

18Who is a merciful God like you? Your grace wipes the slate clean of guilt and pardons the rebellion of the remnant of your people. You don’t hold your anger against us forever, but you delight in showing faithful, tender love.

19Once more we ask: have tender mercy on us, tread our iniquities under your feet, and hurl all our sins to the bottom of the sea.

20You will demonstrate endless faithfulness to Jacob’s tribes and to Abraham’s descendants your constant love, just like you swore to our ancestors in ancient times.

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