Micah 7
7:1Alas, for I became as one gathering stubble in a harvest, and as one gathering grape gleanings where there does not exist a cluster of first-ripe grapes to eat, which my soul longs after. Woe O soul.
7:2For the reverent one is destroyed from the earth; and there does not exist one keeping straight among men. All adjudicate unto blood; each squeezes out his neighbor by oppression;
7:3they prepare their hands for evil; the ruler asks for gifts, and the judge speaks peaceable words for bribes. It is the wish of his soul.
7:4And I will take out their good things, as a moth chews away, and one proceeding by the rule in the day of the watch. Woe, your punishments came, now there shall be their weeping.
7:5Do not confide in friends; do not hope upon leaders; of your bed-mate watch out to not present anything to her.
7:6For the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; enemies are all the men, the ones in his own house.
7:7But I will look upon my lord; I will wait upon the lord my deliverer. My God will listen to me.
7:8Rejoice not against me, O my enemy! for I have fallen and I will rise up. For if I shall sit in the darkness, the lord will give light to me.
7:9The anger of the lord I shall endure, for I sinned against him, until he does justice to my cause, and shall execute my judgment. He shall lead me into the light; I shall see his righteousness.
7:10And my enemy shall see and shall wear shame, saying to me, Where is the lord your God? My eyes shall scrutinize her, now she will be for trampling upon as mud in the ways.
7:11A day of plastering of brick is your wiping out, and your laws shall be thrust away in that day.
7:12And your cities shall come unto leveling, and into partition by the Assyrians; and your fortified cities for partitioning from Tyre unto the river, and from sea unto sea, and from mountain unto mountain.
7:13And the land will be for extinction with the ones dwelling it, because of the fruits of their practices.
7:14Tend your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance, the ones encamping by themselves in a forest, in the midst of Carmel! They shall feed Bashan, and Gilead, according to the days of the eon.
7:15And according to the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will show to them wonderful things.
7:16Nations shall see and shall be disgraced, even of all their strength. They shall place hands over their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.
7:17They shall lick dust as serpents dragging on the earth; they shall be confounded in their confinement; by the lord our God they shall be amazed, and shall fear from you.
7:18What God is as you, removing iniquities and passing over impiety to the remnants of his inheritance? His anger is not constrained for a testimony, for he is a wisher of mercy.
7:19He shall turn and shall pity us; he shall sink our iniquities, and shall throw away into the depths of the sea all our sins.
7:20He shall give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, in so far as you swore an oath to our fathers, according to the former days.