Mic 7
1
Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the grapes of the vintage:
there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the firstripe figs.
2
The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they
all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death.
3
The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for
giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled
it.
4
He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn
of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their
destruction.
5
Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from
her that sleepeth in thy bosom.
6
For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up against her mother,
the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his
own household.
7
But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God my Saviour: my God will hear
me.
8
Rejoice not, thou, my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit
in darkness, the Lord is my light.
9
I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he judge
my cause and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall
behold his justice.
10
And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where
is the Lord thy God? My eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under
foot as the mire of the streets.
11
The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day shall the law be far
removed.
12
In that day they shall come even from Assyria to thee, and to the fortified cities:
and from the fortified cities even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain
to mountain.
13
And the land shall be made desolate, because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the
fruit of their devices.
14
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell alone
in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in Basan and Galaad according
to the days of old.
15
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt I will shew him wonders.
16
The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their strength: they shall put
the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17
They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they
shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord our God, and shall fear
thee.
18
Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the
remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth
in mercy.
19
He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he
will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.
20
Thou wilt perform the truth of Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn
to our fathers from the days of old.