Micah 7 (NET)

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Micah 7:1¹Woe is me! For I am like those gathering fruit and those harvesting grapes, when there is no grape cluster to eat and no fresh figs that my stomach craves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 28:4 Hos 9:10 Isa 24:13 Isa 17:6 Isa 24:16 Isa 6:5 Jer 15:10 Jer 4:31 Jer 45:3 Ps 120:5

Micah 7:2²Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 12:1 Isa 57:1 Isa 59:7 Jer 5:26 Ps 14:1-3 Prov 1:11 Jer 16:16 1 Sam 24:11 1 Sam 26:20 Hab 1:15-17

Micah 7:3³They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish, and then they plan it out.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 3:11 Prov 4:16-17 Amos 5:12 Jer 8:10 1 Cor 4:5 1 Kgs 21:9-14 Ezek 22:27 Ezek 22:6 Hos 4:18 Isa 1:23

Micah 7:4⁴The best of them is like a thorn; their godly are like a thorn bush. Woe to your watchmen; your appointed punishment is on the way. The time of their confusion is now.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 22:5 Ezek 2:6 Isa 10:3 2 Sam 23:6-7 Hos 9:7-8 Amos 8:2 Ezek 12:23-24 Heb 6:8 Isa 55:13 Jer 10:15

Micah 7:5⁵Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Even with the one who lies in your arms, do not share secrets!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:4 Ps 118:8-9 Matt 10:16 Job 6:14-15 Judg 16:5-20

Micah 7:6⁶For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are his own family.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 10:35-36 Luke 12:53 Matt 10:21 Ps 41:9 2 Tim 3:2-3 Ezek 22:7 Ps 55:12-14 Luke 21:16 Matt 26:23 Matt 26:49-50

Micah 7:8⁸My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:12 Ps 27:1 Isa 9:2 Ps 112:4 Prov 24:16-18 Ps 107:10-15 Obad 1:12 2 Cor 4:6 Ps 38:16 Ps 41:10-12

Micah 7:9⁹I must endure the Lord ’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:5 Ps 37:6 1 Sam 24:15 2 Thess 1:5-10 Heb 12:6-7 2 Tim 4:8 Lam 3:39-42 Mal 3:18 1 Sam 25:39 1 Sam 26:10

Micah 7:10¹⁰When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame. They say to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” I will gloat over them; then they will be trampled down like mud in the streets.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 50:33-34 Ps 42:10 Zech 10:5 2 Sam 22:43 Joel 2:17 Ps 18:42 Ps 35:26 Rev 18:20 2 Kgs 9:33-37 Jer 51:51

Micah 7:12¹²In that day people will come to you from Assyria as far as Egypt, from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River, from the seacoasts and the mountains.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 19:23-25 Hos 11:11 Isa 11:16 Ezek 29:21 Ezek 37:21 Isa 27:12-13 Isa 43:6 Isa 49:12 Isa 60:4-9 Isa 66:19-20

Micah 7:14¹⁴Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 23:1-4 Mic 5:4 Ps 100:3 Isa 40:11 Isa 49:10 John 10:27-30 Amos 9:11 Isa 37:24 Jer 50:19-20 Ps 28:9

Micah 7:15¹⁵“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:12-72 Exod 3:20 Isa 51:9 Isa 11:16 Isa 63:11-15 Jer 23:7-8 Ps 68:22

Micah 7:16¹⁶Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength; they will put their hands over their mouths and act as if they were deaf.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 26:11 Isa 52:15 Job 29:9-10 Job 40:4 Ezek 38:23 Ezek 39:17-21 Isa 66:18 Job 21:5 Mic 5:8 Ps 126:2

Micah 7:17¹⁷They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 49:23 Ps 72:9 Ps 18:45 Gen 3:14-15 Rev 6:15-17 1 Sam 14:11 Exod 15:14-16 Isa 2:19-21 Isa 25:3 Isa 59:19

Micah 7:18¹⁸Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 43:25 Isa 44:22 Eph 2:4-5 Ps 103:8-9 Jer 50:20 Acts 13:38-39 Jer 32:41 Exod 15:11 Jer 3:12 Lam 3:31-32

Micah 7:19¹⁹Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 38:17 Isa 43:25 Rom 6:14 Jer 31:34 Jer 50:20 Ps 103:12 Titus 2:14 1 John 3:8 Rom 8:2-3 Ezek 36:25-27

Micah 7:20²⁰You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 28:13-14 Luke 1:72-74 Acts 3:25-26 Deut 7:8 Gen 12:2-3 Gen 17:7-8 Gen 22:16-18 Gen 26:3-4 Heb 6:13-18 Jer 33:25-26

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