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Micah 7
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Micah 7 . 1
1 Woe 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.TOSKMicah 7:1
Micah 7 . 2
2 The 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.TOSKMicah 7:2
Micah 7 . 3
3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.TOSKMicah 7:3
Micah 7 . 4
4 The 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.TOSKMicah 7:4
Micah 7 . 5
5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.TOSKMicah 7:5
Micah 7 . 6
6 For 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.IPMatthew 10:35-36TOSKMicah 7:6
Micah 7 . 7
7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.CMicah 7:7-10TOSKMicah 7:7
Micah 7 . 8
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.CMicah 7:7-10TOSKMicah 7:8
Micah 7 . 9
9 Because 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.CMicah 7:7-10TOSKMicah 7:9
Micah 7 . 10
10 Then 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.CMicah 7:7-10TOSKMicah 7:10
Micah 7 . 11
11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.TOSKMicah 7:11
Micah 7 . 12
12 On 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.TOSKMicah 7:12
Micah 7 . 13
13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.TOSKMicah 7:13
Micah 7 . 14
14 Shepherd 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.TOSKMicah 7:14
Micah 7 . 15
15 As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.TOSKMicah 7:15
Micah 7 . 16
16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.TOSKMicah 7:16
Micah 7 . 17
17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.IPGenesis 3:14 Psalm 72:9TOSKMicah 7:17
Micah 7 . 18
18 Who 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?IPExodus 15:1 Exodus 15:1 Exodus 34:6-7CMicah 7:18-19TOSKMicah 7:18TTCrossing the Red Sea (Baptism into Christ) New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern)
Micah 7 . 19
19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.IPExodus 15:1 Exodus 34:6-7 Leviticus 16:22CMicah 7:18-19TOSKMicah 7:19TTCrossing the Red Sea (Baptism into Christ) New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Scapegoat (Removal of Sins)
Micah 7 . 20
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.TOSKMicah 7:20TTAbraham (Father of Faith)