Micah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Micah 7 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- 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.
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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!
1 ¡AY de mí! que he venido á ser como cuando han cogido los frutos del verano, como cuando han rebuscado después de la vendimia, [que] no [queda] racimo para comer; mi alma deseó primeros frutos.
1 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
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:
2 Faltó el misericordioso de la tierra, y ninguno hay recto entre los hombres: todos acechan á la sangre; cada cual arma red á su hermano.
2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
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:
3 Para completar la maldad con sus manos, el príncipe demanda, y el juez [juzga] por recompensa; y el grande habla el antojo de su alma, y lo confirman.
3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
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.
4 El mejor de ellos es como el cambrón; el más recto, [como] zarzal: el día de tus atalayas, tu visitación, viene; ahora será su confusión.
4 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
5 Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.
5 No creáis en amigo, ni confiéis en príncipe: de la que duerme á tu lado, guarda, no abras tu boca.
5 Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
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.
6 Porque el hijo deshonra al padre, la hija se levanta contra la madre, la nuera contra su suegra: y los enemigos del hombre son los de su casa.
6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7 But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.
7 Yo empero á Jehová esperaré, esperaré al Dios de mi salud: el Dios mío me oirá.
7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear 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.
8 Tú, enemiga mía, no te huelgues de mí: porque aunque caí, he de levantarme; aunque more en tinieblas, Jehová será mi luz.
8 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will 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.
9 La ira de Jehová soportaré, porque pequé contra él, hasta que juzgue mi causa y haga mi juicio; él me sacará á luz; veré su justicia.
9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see 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.
10 Y mi enemiga verá, y la cubrirá vergüenza: la que me decía: ¿Dónde está Jehová tu Dios? Mis ojos la verán; ahora será hollada como lodo de las calles.
10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
11 [It is] the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.
11 El día en que se edificarán tus muros, aquel día será alejado el mandamiento.
11 A day to build your walls! In that day, he will extend your boundary.
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.
12 En ese día vendrán hasta ti desde Asiria y las ciudades fuertes, y desde las ciudades fuertes hasta el Río, y de mar á mar, y de monte á monte.
12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.
13 And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.
13 Y la tierra con sus moradores será asolada por el fruto de sus obras.
13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for 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.
14 Apacienta tu pueblo con tu cayado, el rebaño de tu heredad, que mora solo en la montaña, en medio del Carmelo: pazcan en Basán y Galaad, como en el tiempo pasado.
14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest. Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land, in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
15 And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous [things].
15 Yo les mostraré maravillas como el día que saliste de Egipto.
15 “As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous 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.
16 Las gentes verán, y se avergonzarán de todas sus valentías; pondrán la mano sobre su boca, ensordecerán sus oídos.
16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
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.
17 Lamerán el polvo como la culebra; como las serpientes de la tierra, temblarán en sus encierros: despavorirse han de Jehová nuestro Dios, y temerán de ti.
17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
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.
18 ¿Qué Dios como tú, que perdonas la maldad, y olvidas el pecado del resto de su heredad? No retuvo para siempre su enojo, porque es amador de misericordia.
18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
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.
19 El tornará, él tendrá misericordia de nosotros; él sujetará nuestras iniquidades, y echará en los profundos de la mar todos nuestros pecados.
19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.
20 Otorgarás á Jacob la verdad, y á Abraham la misericordia, que tú juraste á nuestros padres desde tiempos antiguos.
20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
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)