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Micah 7 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Israel’s Misery

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:1 - What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:6 - For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:7 - But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Israel Will Rise

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:8 - Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:9 - Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD’s wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:11 - The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:12 - In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:13 - The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

Prayer and Praise

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:14 - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[fn] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:15 - “As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 - Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:18 - Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:19 - You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:20 - You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.
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