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|Miquéias 7:1| How wretched I am, a harvester in summer time, like a gleaner at the vintage: not a single cluster to eat, none of those early figs I love!
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|Miquéias 7:2| The faithful have vanished from the land: there is no one honest left. All of them are on the alert for blood, every man hunting his brother with a net.
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|Miquéias 7:3| Their hands are adept at wrong-doing: the official makes his demands, the judge gives judgement for a bribe, the man in power pronounces as he pleases.
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|Miquéias 7:4| The best of them is like a briar, the most honest of them like a thorn-hedge. Now from the north their punishment approaches! That will be when they are confounded!
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|Miquéias 7:5| Trust no neighbour, put no confidence in a friend; do not open your mouth to the wife who shares your bed.
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|Miquéias 7:6| For son insults father, daughter rebels against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law; a person's enemies come from within the household itself.
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|Miquéias 7:7| But I shall look to Yahweh, my hope is in the God who will save me; my God will hear me.
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|Miquéias 7:8| Do not gloat over me, my enemy: though I have fallen, I shall rise; though I live in darkness, Yahweh is my light.
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|Miquéias 7:9| I must endure Yahweh's anger for I have sinned against him, until he takes up my cause and rights my wrongs; he will bring me out into the light, and then I shall contemplate his saving justice.
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|Miquéias 7:10| When my enemy sees this, she will be covered with shame, having sneered, 'Where is Yahweh your God?' This time, I shall be watching as she is trampled underfoot like mud in the streets.
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