Micah 7
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1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Micah 7:1
2The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Micah 7:2
3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Micah 7:3
4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Micah 7:4
5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Micah 7:5
6For the son dishonoureth 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.
Micah 7:6
7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah 7:7
8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
Micah 7:8
9I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Micah 7:9
10Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Micah 7:10
11In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Micah 7:11
12In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
Micah 7:12
13Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Micah 7:13
14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah 7:14
15According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
Micah 7:15
16The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Micah 7:16
17They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Micah 7:17
18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Micah 7:18
19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:19
20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Micah 7:20
Chapter 7
Cross References
Micah 7:1
Isaiah 28:4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fadi...Isaiah 24:13¶ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall b...Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstrip...Isaiah 17:6¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two...Isaiah 6:5¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, a...
Micah 7:2
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the chil...Isaiah 57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are tak...Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have do...Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their though...Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snar...
Micah 7:3
Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and...Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken awa...Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the j...Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that sha...Matthew 26:15And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And t...
Micah 7:4
Isaiah 22:5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord...Ezekiel 2:6¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,...Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall...2 Samuel 23:6¶ But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because the...Hosea 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall k...
Micah 7:5
Jeremiah 9:4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for ev...Psalms 118:8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.Matthew 10:16¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise...Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh...Judges 16:5And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him...
Micah 7:6
Matthew 10:35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter agai...Luke 12:53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the...Matthew 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child:...Psalms 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hat...2 Timothy 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphem...
Micah 7:7
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him wh...1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing accord...Isaiah 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and ther...Isaiah 25:9¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him,...
Micah 7:8
John 8:12¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,I am the light of the world: he that...Isaiah 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in t...Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the streng...Psalms 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full o...Psalms 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction an...
Micah 7:9
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will brin...Psalms 37:6And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the...1 Samuel 24:15The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead m...2 Thessalonians 1:5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be count...Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receivet...
Micah 7:10
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto...Jeremiah 50:33¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah...Zechariah 10:5¶ And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of...Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:...Psalms 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as t...
Micah 7:11
Amos 9:11¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close...Nehemiah 2:8And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me tim...Nehemiah 4:6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof...Ezra 4:12Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come...Nehemiah 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if...
Micah 7:12
Isaiah 19:23¶ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian...Hosea 11:11They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assy...Isaiah 11:16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left...Isaiah 60:4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, th...Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto...
Cross References
Micah 7:1
Isaiah 28:4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fadi...Isaiah 24:13¶ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall b...Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstrip...Isaiah 17:6¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two...Isaiah 6:5¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, a...
Micah 7:2
Psalms 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the chil...Isaiah 57:1The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are tak...Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have do...Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their though...Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snar...
Micah 7:3
Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and...Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken awa...Amos 5:12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the j...Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that sha...Matthew 26:15And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And t...
Micah 7:4
Isaiah 22:5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord...Ezekiel 2:6¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words,...Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall...2 Samuel 23:6¶ But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because the...Hosea 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall k...
Micah 7:5
Jeremiah 9:4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for ev...Psalms 118:8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.Matthew 10:16¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise...Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh...Judges 16:5And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him...
Micah 7:6
Matthew 10:35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter agai...Luke 12:53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the...Matthew 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child:...Psalms 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hat...2 Timothy 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphem...
Micah 7:7
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him wh...1 John 5:14And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing accord...Isaiah 45:22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and ther...Isaiah 25:9¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him,...
Micah 7:8
John 8:12¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying,I am the light of the world: he that...Isaiah 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in t...Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the streng...Psalms 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full o...Psalms 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction an...
Micah 7:9
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will brin...Psalms 37:6And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the...1 Samuel 24:15The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead m...2 Thessalonians 1:5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be count...Hebrews 12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receivet...
Micah 7:10
Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto...Jeremiah 50:33¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah...Zechariah 10:5¶ And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of...Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:...Psalms 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as t...
Micah 7:11
Amos 9:11¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close...Nehemiah 2:8And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me tim...Nehemiah 4:6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof...Ezra 4:12Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come...Nehemiah 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if...
Micah 7:12
Isaiah 19:23¶ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian...Hosea 11:11They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assy...Isaiah 11:16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left...Isaiah 60:4Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, th...Isaiah 66:19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto...