Mic 7 | NASB2020 | STEP | Woe to me! For I am Like harvests of summer fruit , like gleanings of grapes . There is not a cluster of grapes left to eat , Nor an early fig , which I crave .

Micah 7

The Prophet Acknowledges Injustice

1 Woe to me! For I am
Like harvests of summer fruit, like gleanings of ^agrapes.
There is not a cluster of grapes left to eat,
Nor an ^bearly fig, which ^{▼▼Lit my soul desires}I crave.
2 The ^{▼▼Or faithful}godly person has ^eperished from the land,
And there is no upright person among mankind.
All of them lie in wait for ^fbloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a ^gnet.
3 As for evil, both hands do it ^hwell.
The leader asks for a ⁱbribe, also the judge,
And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul;
So they plot it together.
4 The best of them is like a ^jthorn bush,
The most upright like a ^kthorn hedge.
The day ^{▼▼Lit of your}when you post your watchmen,
Your ^mpunishment is coming.
Then their ⁿconfusion will occur.
5 Do not ^otrust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a close friend.
Guard ^{▼▼Lit the openings of your mouth}your lips
From her who lies ^{▼▼Lit on your chest}in your arms.
6 For ^rson disavows father,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
^sA person’s enemies are the people of his own household.

God Is the Source of Salvation and Light

7 But as for me, I will ^tbe on the watch for the Lord;
I will ^uwait for the God of my salvation.
My ^vGod will hear me.
8 ^wDo not rejoice over me, ^xenemy of mine.
Though I fall I will ^yrise;
Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a ^zlight for me.

9 I will endure the rage of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He ^aapleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the ^ablight,
And I will look at His ^{▼▼I.e., right dealing
,} ^adrighteousness.
10 Then my enemy will see,
And shame will cover her who ^aesaid to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look at her;
^{▼▼Lit Now}At that time she will ^{▼▼Lit become a trampled place}be ^ahtrampled down
Like mud of the streets.
11 It will be a day for ^aibuilding your walls.
On that day your boundary will be extended.
12 It will be a day when ^{▼▼Lit he}they will ^akcome to you
From Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
From Egypt even to the Euphrates River,
Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
13 And the earth will become a ^alwasteland because of her inhabitants,
On account of the ^amfruit of their deeds.

14 ^anShepherd Your people with Your ^aoscepter,
The flock of Your ^{▼▼Or inheritance}possession
Which lives by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of ^{▼▼Or Carmel}a fruitful field.
Let them feed in ^arBashan and Gilead
^asAs in the days of old.
15 “As in the days when you went out from the land of Egypt,
I will show ^{▼▼Lit him
,} ^auyou miracles.”
16 Nations ^avwill see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will ^awput their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.
17 They will ^axlick up dust like a snake,
Like ^{▼▼Lit crawling things
,} ^azreptiles of the earth.
They will come ^batrembling out of their ^{▼▼Or prisons}fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in ^bctrepidation,
And they will be afraid of You.
18 Who is a God like You, who ^bdpardons wrongdoing
And passes over a rebellious act of the ^beremnant of His ^{▼▼Or inheritance}possession?
He does not ^bgretain His anger forever,
Because He ^bhdelights in mercy.
19 He will again take pity on us;
^biHe will trample on our wrongdoings.
Yes, You will ^bjcast all ^{▼▼Several ancient versions our}their sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give ^{▼▼Or faithfulness
,} ^bmtruth to Jacob
And favor to Abraham,
Which You ^bnswore to our forefathers
From the days of old.