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    Micah · 20 verses

    Micah 7

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    Here the offended party becomes the advocate: after admitting sin against the LORD, the speaker waits for the LORD to argue the case and execute justice.

    No fruit, no trust, yet a lightvv. 1–10

    The scene opens like a vineyard after the harvest, with nothing left but the longing for an early fig. The godly have vanished, judges take bribes, and even the best people are compared with briars and thorn hedges—an economical compliment. Trust retreats into the household, where a man’s enemies are members of his own family. Yet the speaker waits for God, and the enemy who asked, “Where is the LORD your God?” is promised a humiliating answer in the streets.

    Walls, borders, and a very large pasturevv. 11–17

    The mood turns outward: walls will be rebuilt, boundaries extended, and people will come from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, in a sweep reaching from Egypt to the Euphrates. The earth, meanwhile, becomes desolate because of what its inhabitants have done. Then comes the shepherd’s plea for the flock to graze in Bashan and Gilead, followed by wonders like those shown when the people came out of Egypt. The nations answer with a memorable collection of gestures: hands over mouths, deaf ears, dust-licking, and trembling out of strongholds.

    The God who casts sins into the seavv. 18–20

    The final movement is astonished praise. God pardons iniquity, passes over transgression, and does not retain anger forever, because loving devotion delights Him. Compassion returns; iniquities are vanquished; sins are cast into the depths of the sea. Faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham close the chapter with an oath reaching back to the days of old.

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    1. Mic 7:1Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

    2. Mic 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

    3. Mic 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

    4. Mic 7:4The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

    5. Mic 7:5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

    6. Mic 7:6For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

    7. Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

    8. Mic 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

    9. Mic 7:9Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

    10. Mic 7:10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

    11. Mic 7:11The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.

    12. Mic 7:12On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

    13. Mic 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

    14. Mic 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

    15. Mic 7:15As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.

    16. Mic 7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

    17. Mic 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

    18. Mic 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

    19. Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

    20. Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

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    • 7Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
    • 18Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
    • 7Psalms 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
    • 5Jeremiah 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
    • 6Matthew 10:35–36For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
    • 18Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
    • 71 John 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
    • 8John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
    • 5Psalms 118:8–9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
    • 8Psalms 27:1Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?
    • 7Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
    • 18Ephesians 2:4–5But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
    • 5Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
    • 18Psalms 103:8–9The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
    • 6Luke 12:53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
    • 8Isaiah 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

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