1 Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul! 2 For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders [his way] aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour: 3 they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks [a reward], and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul: 4 therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who acts by a [rigid] rule in a day of visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations. 5 Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her. 6 For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house [shall be] all a man's enemies. 7 But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me. 8 Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen [yet] shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. 10 And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where [is] the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways. 11 [It is] the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances. 12 And thy cities shall be levelled, and parted among the Assyrians; and thy strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. 13 And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings. 14 Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old. 15 And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous [things]. 16 The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened. 17 They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee. 18 Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. 19 He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depths of the sea, [even] all our sins. 20 He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.
Micah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Micah 7 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 28:4; Hosea 9:10; Isaiah 24:13; Isaiah 17:6; Jeremiah 45:3
- 2 Psalm 12:1; Psalm 14:1–3; Isaiah 59:7; Isaiah 57:1; Jeremiah 5:26
- 3 Micah 3:11; Proverbs 4:16–17; Amos 5:12; Jeremiah 8:10; Jeremiah 3:5
- 4 Isaiah 22:5; Ezekiel 2:6; Isaiah 10:3; 2 Samuel 23:6–7; Hosea 9:7–8
- 5 Jeremiah 9:4; Psalm 118:8–9; Matthew 10:16; Job 6:14–15; Judges 16:5–20
- 6 Matthew 10:35–36; Luke 12:53; Matthew 10:21; Psalm 41:9; Ezekiel 22:7
- 7 Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 37:7; 1 John 5:14–15; Isaiah 45:22; Isaiah 25:9
- 8 John 8:12; Psalm 27:1; Isaiah 9:2; Psalm 112:4; Proverbs 24:16–18
- 9 1 Corinthians 4:5; Psalm 37:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10; 1 Samuel 24:15; Hebrews 12:6–7
- 10 Zechariah 10:5; Psalm 42:10; Jeremiah 50:33–34; Revelation 18:20; Psalm 35:26
- 11 Amos 9:11–15; Nehemiah 4:6; Isaiah 54:11; Nehemiah 2:8; Ezra 4:12–24
- 12 Isaiah 19:23–25; Hosea 11:11; Isaiah 11:16; Jeremiah 23:3; Ezekiel 29:21
- 13 Isaiah 3:10–11; Jeremiah 25:11; Micah 6:13; Jeremiah 17:10; Leviticus 26:33–39
- 14 Psalm 23:1–4; Micah 5:4; Psalm 100:3; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 49:10
- 15 Psalm 78:12–72; Exodus 3:20; Isaiah 51:9; Psalm 68:22; Isaiah 63:11–15
- 16 Isaiah 26:11; Isaiah 52:15; Job 40:4; Job 29:9–10; Romans 3:19
- 17 Isaiah 49:23; Psalm 72:9; Psalm 18:45; Genesis 3:14–15; Revelation 6:15–17
- 18 Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 44:22; Ephesians 2:4–5; Psalm 103:8–9; Jeremiah 50:20
- 19 Isaiah 38:17; Isaiah 43:25; Romans 6:14; Jeremiah 31:34; Psalm 103:12
- 20 Genesis 28:13–14; Luke 1:72–74; Genesis 17:7–8; Genesis 12:2–3; Genesis 22:16–18
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"According to the days of thy coming out of Egypt will I show unto him marvellous things, etc....In this Psalm, therefore, although the wonderful spirit of prophecy doth look into the future, yet it seemeth, as it were, to be merely detailing to the past.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
Wherefore the prophet admonishes, saying, "Trust ye not in friends, have not hope in guides; yea, even of her that lieth in thy bosom beware, in respect of communicating aught to her:" and, "A man's enemies are the men that are in his own house." And this He said, preparing him that should receive the word to be above all.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
for the godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none that doeth right among men: and again, They are all gone out of the way, they are together became unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one: and again, Cursing and stealing, and adultery, and murder are poured out upon the land.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)