Micah 7:9

A Conservative Version

I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

Psalm 37:6

And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy justice as the noon-day.

1 Samuel 24:15

LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

2 Timothy 4:8

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Malachi 3:18

Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

Revelation 18:20

Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.

Isaiah 46:13

I bring near my righteousness. It shall not be far off. And my salvation shall not tarry, and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Psalm 43:1

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 7:6

Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

2 Samuel 24:17

And David spoke to LORD when he saw the agent who smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely, but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's ho

1 Samuel 26:10

And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 25:39

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his ow

1 Samuel 3:18

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is LORD. Let him do what seems him good.

Leviticus 26:41

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity,

Lamentations 1:18

LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Psalm 94:15

For judgment shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Psalm 119:154

Plead thou my cause, and redeem me. Enliven me according to thy word.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says LORD, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness. For my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous, but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

Jeremiah 51:10

LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion the work of LORD our God.

Job 35:14

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

Isaiah 51:22

Thus says thy lord LORD, and thy God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. Thou shall no more drink it again.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.