Micah 7:8-20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy;
    when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
    the Lord will be a light to me.
⁹ I must bear the indignation of the Lord,
    because I have sinned against him,
until he takes my side
    and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light;
    I shall see his vindication.
¹⁰ Then my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see her downfall;^[a]
    now she will be trodden down
    like the mire of the streets.

¹¹ A day for the building of your walls!
    In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
¹² In that day they will come to you
    from Assyria to^[b] Egypt,
and from Egypt to the River,
    from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
¹³ But the earth will be desolate
    because of its inhabitants,
    for the fruit of their doings.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
    and passing over the transgression
    of the remnant of your^[d] possession?
He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in showing clemency.
¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us;
    he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our^[e] sins
    into the depths of the sea.
²⁰ You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and unswerving loyalty to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
    from the days of old.