KJ3 Literal Translation
Micah 7
God's people put no confidence in man, but in Jehovah. So they triumph over her enemies.
1Woe to me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul craves the early fig.
2The godly one has perished from the earth, and the upright one is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each man hunts his brother with a net.
3Both palms are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great man speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.
4Their best is like a thorn; the upright one more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchers, your visitation is coming; now shall be their confusion.
5Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; guard the opening of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
6for a son is despising his father; a daughter rises up against her mother; the bride against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his house.
7But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
8Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for if I fall, I shall arise. For if I sit in darkness, Jehovah is a light to me.
9I will bear the rage of Jehovah because I have sinned against Him, until that He contends for my case and executes my judgment. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see His righteousness.
10And my enemy shall see; and shame shall cover her, the one saying to me, Where is He, Jehovah your God? My eyes shall see her. Now she shall be for a trampling, as the mud of the streets.
11A day of building your walls, that day the limit shall be removed.
12Even that day he shall come to you from Assyria, and the cities of siege, and from the siege even to the River, and from sea and sea, and hill to hill.
13But the land shall become a desolation because of those dwelling in it, from the fruit of their doings.
14Shepherd Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your possession, dwelling alone in the thicket, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.
15As the days of your coming out from the land of Egypt, I will cause him to see extraordinary things.
16The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their forces. They shall set the hand on the mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
17They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall tremble out of their fastnesses like crawlers of the earth; they shall dread Jehovah our God; they shall fear You.
18Who is a God like You, lifting off iniquity and passing by the transgression of the remnant of His possession? He does not make strong His anger forever, for He delights in mercy.
19He will return to pity us; He will subdue our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20You will give faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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