Micah 7:8-13

International Children’s Bible

⁸ Enemy, don’t laugh at me.
    I have fallen, but I will get up again.
I sit in the shadow of trouble now.
    But the Lord will be a light for me.
⁹ I sinned against the Lord.
    So he was angry with me.
But he will defend my case in court.
    He will do what is right for me.
Then he will bring me out into the light.
    I will see him set things right.
¹⁰ Then my enemies will see this,
    and they will be ashamed.
My enemies said to me,
    ‘Where is the Lord your God?’
Now I will laugh at them.
    They will fall down defeated, like the mud people walk on.”

¹¹ The time will come when your walls will be built again.
    At that time your country will grow.
¹² Your people will come back to your land.
    They will come from Assyria and the cities of Egypt.
They will come from the countries
    between the river of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
They will come from the countries
    between the Mediterranean Sea in the west and the mountains in the east.
¹³ The rest of the earth will be ruined.
    This is because of what the people who lived in it did.