Micah 7

Wait Upon Yahweh

¹Woe is me! For I have become

when there is no cluster of grapes to eat

²The faithful person has perished from the land,

All of them lie in wait;

³Their hands are upon evil, to do it well;

and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;

⁴The best of them is like a brier;

The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come;

⁵Do not put faith in a friend;

Guard the doorways of your mouth

⁶For a son treats a father with contempt;

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

⁷But as for me, I will look to Yahweh;

⁸You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy!

when I sit in darkness

⁹I will bear the rage of Yahweh,

until he pleads my cause

He will bring me out to the light;

¹⁰Then my enemy will see,

“Where is Yahweh your God?”

now she will become a trampling place,

¹¹A day for building your walls;

¹²On that day he will come to you

and from Egypt to the River,

¹³But the earth will be a desolation

¹⁴Shepherd your people with your staff,

those dwelling alone in a forest

Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,

¹⁵As in the days when you came out

¹⁶The nations will see and be ashamed

They will lay the hand on the mouth;

¹⁷They will lick the dust like the serpent,

They will come trembling from their strongholds

¹⁸Who is a God like you, forgiving sin

He does not retain his anger forever,

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us;[#Literally “He will return, he will have compassion”]

And you will hurl all their sins

²⁰You will show faithfulness to Jacob,

as you have sworn to our ancestors