Micah 7:8-13

The Voice

⁸    Do not gloat at my fate, my enemy;
        although I am down now, I will rise up.
    Although I am in darkness now, the Eternal One will be my light.
⁹    I must bear His anger because I have sinned against Him
        until He argues on my behalf and rights all my wrongs.
    He will bring me out into the light,
        and then I will see His saving justice.
¹⁰    When my enemy sees that God has rescued me,
        then shame will wash over her
    Because she sneered to me, “Where is the Eternal your God?”
        It will be my turn to watch when she is trampled,
    Walked on like mud in the street.

¹¹Israel, that will be the day for building your city walls;
    that will be the day to expand your national boundaries.
¹²In that day, people will come to you
    from everywhere: from Assyria to cities in Egypt,
From Egypt to the Euphrates River,
    from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
¹³The earth will become a desert because those who live on it
    will produce no fruit from their labors.