Micah 7:7-15

Jun 8, 2023

Micah 7:7-15 New International Version (NIV)

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

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.
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.
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.

¹¹ The day for building your walls will come,
    the day for extending your boundaries.
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.
¹³ The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
    as the result of their deeds.

Prayer and Praise

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

¹⁵ “As in the days when you came out of Egypt,
    I will show them my wonders.”