Micah 7 (NET)

Micah 7:1¹Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:2²Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:3³They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish, and then they plan it out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:4⁴The best of them is like a thorn; their godly are like a thorn bush. Woe to your watchmen; your appointed punishment is on the way. The time of their confusion is now.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:5⁵Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:6⁶For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:7⁷But I will keep watching for the Lord; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will listen to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:8⁸My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:9⁹I must endure the Lord ’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:10¹⁰When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame. They say to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” I will gloat over them; then they will be trampled down like mud in the streets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:11¹¹It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:12¹²In that day people will come to you from Assyria as far as Egypt, from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River, from the seacoasts and the mountains.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:13¹³The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:14¹⁴Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:15¹⁵“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:16¹⁶Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength; they will put their hands over their mouths and act as if they were deaf.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:17¹⁷They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:18¹⁸Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:19¹⁹Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Micah 7:20²⁰You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions