Micah 7:8-20

Israel Will Rise 8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

9Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD ’s wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.

10Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

11The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.

12In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

13The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

Prayer and Praise 14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Or in the middle of Carmel Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

15“As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”

16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

17They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.

18Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

19You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. 20You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.