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          DASV: Micah 7

1 Woe is me!
     For I am as one after the summer fruit has been gathered,
           after the grapes have been harvested;
     when there is no cluster left to eat,
           no early fig that I crave.
2 The faithful have perished from the land,
          and there is no one upright left.
      They all set an ambush for bloodshed;
          every one hunts his brother with a net.
3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil;
          the officials and judge ask for a bribe.
     The prominent ones make their demands,
          thus they weave their plots together.
4 The best of them is like a brier;
          the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
      The day of your watchmen, even your punishment, is come;
          now their confusion has arrived.
5 Do not trust a neighbor;
          do not put confidence in a friend.
      Guard the doors of your mouth
          even from her who lies in your arms.
6 For the son disrespects his father,
     the daughter rises up against her mother,
      the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
      one's enemies are the members of their own household.

7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD;
      I will wait for the God of my salvation.
           My God will hear me.
8 Do not gloat over me, O my enemy.
     When I fall,
           I will arise;
     when I sit in darkness,
           the LORD will be my light.
9 I must bear the LORD's anger,
      because I have sinned against him,
      until he pleads my cause,
     and executes judgment for me.
      He will bring me out into the light,
           and I will see his righteousness.
10 Then my enemy will see it,
           and shame will cover her who said to me,
           "Where is the LORD your God?"
      My eyes will see her demise.
           Now she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
11 It's A day for building your walls!
     In that day your boundary will be expanded.
12 In that day people will come to you
     from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
     and from Egypt even to the Euphrates River,
           and from sea to sea,
     and from mountain to mountain.
13 Yet the land will be desolate because of its inhabitants,
     because of the fruit of their deeds.
14 Feed your people with your rod,
          the flock of your inheritance,
      which live alone in the forest
           in the midst of Mount Carmel.
      Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
          as in the days of old.
15 "As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
     I will show them marvelous things."

16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might;
      they will lay their hand over their mouths;
      their ears will be deaf.
17 They will lick the dust like a serpent,
          like things that crawl on the ground.
      They will come trembling out of their fortresses;
          they will come with fear to the LORD our God,
           and will be afraid of you.
18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity,
     and passes over the transgression
           of the remnant of his possession?
      He does not remain angry forever,
          because he delights in loyal love.
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
          he will tread our iniquities under foot.
     You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob,
     and loyal love to Abraham,
      which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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