Micah 7:5-18

New American Standard Bible

⁵Do not ^(A)trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a close friend.
Guard ^[a]your lips
From her who lies ^[b]in your arms.
⁶For ^(B)son disavows father,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
^(C)A person’s enemies are the people of his own household.

God Is the Source of Salvation and Light

⁷But as for me, I will ^(D)be on the watch for the Lord;
I will ^(E)wait for the God of my salvation.
My ^(F)God will hear me.
⁸^(G)Do not rejoice over me, ^(H)enemy of mine.
Though I fall I will ^(I)rise;
Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a ^(J)light for me.

⁹I will endure the rage of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He ^(K)pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the ^(L)light,
And I will look at His ^[c]^(M)righteousness.
¹⁰Then my enemy will see,
And shame will cover her who ^(N)said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look at her;
^[d]At that time she will ^[e]be ^(O)trampled down
Like mud of the streets.
¹¹It will be a day for ^(P)building your walls.
On that day your boundary will be extended.
¹²It will be a day when ^[f]they will ^(Q)come 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.
¹³And the earth will become a ^(R)wasteland because of her inhabitants,
On account of the ^(S)fruit of their deeds.

¹⁴^(T)Shepherd Your people with Your ^(U)scepter,
The flock of Your ^[g]possession
Which lives by itself in the woodland,
In the midst of ^[h]a fruitful field.
Let them feed in ^(V)Bashan and Gilead
^(W)As in the days of old.
¹⁵“As in the days when you went out from the land of Egypt,
I will show ^[i]^(X)you miracles.”
¹⁶Nations ^(Y)will see and be ashamed
Of all their might.
They will ^(Z)put their hand on their mouth,
Their ears will be deaf.
¹⁷They will ^(AA)lick up dust like a snake,
Like ^[j]^(AB)reptiles of the earth.
They will come ^(AC)trembling out of their ^[k]fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in ^(AD)trepidation,
And they will be afraid of You.
¹⁸Who is a God like You, who ^(AE)pardons wrongdoing
And passes over a rebellious act of the ^(AF)remnant of His ^[l]possession?
He does not ^(AG)retain His anger forever,
Because He ^(AH)delights in mercy.