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Micah 7:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I feel so empty inside— like someone starving for grapes or figs, after the vines and trees have all been picked clean.

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But I must live as a foreigner among the people of Meshech and in the tents of Kedar.

There are many who say, “You can trust me!” But can they be trusted?

It will be like an olive tree beaten with a stick, leaving two or three olives or perhaps four or five on the highest or most fruitful branches. The LORD God of Israel has promised this.

Nations will be stripped bare, like olive trees or vineyards after the harvest season.

From all over the world songs of praise are heard for the God of justice. But I feel awful, terribly miserable. Can anyone be trusted? So many are treacherous!

Samaria above a fertile valley will quickly lose its glory. It will be gobbled up like the first ripe fig at harvest season.

Then I cried out, “I'm doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD All-Powerful.”

I wish I had never been born! I'm always in trouble with everyone in Judah. I never lend or borrow money, but everyone curses me just the same.

One basket was full of very good figs that ripened early, and the other was full of rotten figs that were not fit to eat.

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

You are moaning and blaming me, the LORD, for your troubles and sorrow, and for being so tired that you can't even rest.

“Search Jerusalem for honest people who try to be faithful. If you can find even one, I'll forgive the whole city.

Israel, when I, the LORD, found you long ago it was like finding grapes in a barren desert or tender young figs. Then you worshipped Baal-Peor, that disgusting idol, and you became as disgusting as the idol you loved.

And the first part of the crops from their fields and vineyards also belongs to you. The people will offer this to me, then anyone in your family who is clean may have some of it.




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