Micah · Majority Standard Bible
Micah 7 Majority Standard Bible
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1 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
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.
2 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
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.
3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
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.
4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
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.
5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
5 No creáis en amigo, ni confiéis en príncipe: de la que duerme á tu lado, guarda, no abras tu boca.
6 For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
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.
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.
7 Yo empero á Jehová esperaré, esperaré al Dios de mi salud: el Dios mío me oirá.
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
8 Tú, enemiga mía, no te huelgues de mí: porque aunque caí, he de levantarme; aunque more en tinieblas, Jehová será mi luz.
9 Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see 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.
10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
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.
11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come—the day for extending your boundary.
11 El día en que se edificarán tus muros, aquel día será alejado el mandamiento.
12 On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and 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.
13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
13 Y la tierra con sus moradores será asolada por el fruto de sus obras.
14 Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, 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.
15 As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
15 Yo les mostraré maravillas como el día que saliste de Egipto.
16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
16 Las gentes verán, y se avergonzarán de todas sus valentías; pondrán la mano sobre su boca, ensordecerán sus oídos.
17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
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.
18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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.
19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
19 El tornará, él tendrá misericordia de nosotros; él sujetará nuestras iniquidades, y echará en los profundos de la mar todos nuestros pecados.
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
20 Otorgarás á Jacob la verdad, y á Abraham la misericordia, que tú juraste á nuestros padres desde tiempos antiguos.
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
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“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)