Micah:7

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* Woe is me ! for I am as in the gathering of the summer –fruits , as in the grape –gleanings of the vintage : there is no cluster to eat , no first –ripe fruit for which my soul longeth . * The pious hath disappeared out of the land ; and the upright among men there is none ; all of them lie in wait for blood ; they hunt every man his brother with a net . * For the evil of your hands you expect good ? while the prince demandeth , and the judge acteth for pay ; and the great man is only speaking the wilful pleasure of his soul : and so do they make a network . * The best of them is like a brier ; the most upright is than a thorn –hedge : the day of thy watchmen , thy punishment , is come ; now shall be perplexity among them . * Trust ye not in a friend , put ye not confidence in a confidant : from her that lieth in thy bosom guard the doors of thy mouth . * For the son disgraceth the father , the daughter riseth up against her mother , the daughter –in –law against her mother –in –law ; a man ’s enemies are the men of his own house . * But I ––I will look unto the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation : my God will hear me . * Rejoice not , O my enemy , over me : though I am fallen , I rise again : though I should sit in darkness , the Lord will be a light unto me . * The indignation of the Lord will I bear , because I have sinned against him ; until that he plead my cause , and execute justice for me : he will bring me forth to the light , and I shall behold his righteousness . * Then she that is my enemy will see it , and shame shall cover her , who said unto me , Where is the Lord thy God ? My eyes shall complacently see her : now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets . * The day that thy fences are to be built ––that same day , the ordained , is yet far removed . * It is a day when men shall come to thee from Assyria , and the cities of Mazor , and from Mazor even to the river , and from sea to sea , and mountain to mountain . * While the land shall be made desolate because of its inhabitants , for the fruit of their doings . * Feed thy people with thy rod , the flock of thy heritage , which dwell in solitude in the wood , in the midst of Carmel : let them feed in Bashan and Gil ’ad , as in the days of old . * As in the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I let them see marvelous things . * Nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might : they shall lay their hand upon their mouth , their ears shall be deafened . * They shall lick the dust like the serpent ; like those that crawl on the earth , shall they come forth trembling out of their close places : unto the Lord our God shall they hasten in dread , and shall be afraid of thee . * Who is a god like unto thee , pardoning iniquity , and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever , because he delighteth in kindness . * He will again have mercy on us , he will suppress our iniquities ; yea , thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea . * Thou wilt show faithfulness unto Jacob , and kindness unto Abraham , which thou hast sworn unto our fathers in the days of old .

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