Micah 7

Micah 7:1-6

Alas! few upright men are now left in the country with whom I can conscientiously associate: and early religion and noted progress in holiness are scarcely to be found. Good and upright men are almost entirely gone out of this world: and almost every one is ready, for self-interest, to murder or oppress the most innocent, or most nearly related. Bent upon doing as much mischief as they can, their very princes and judges even impudently demand bribes, and, without sense of shame, they agree to perpetrate the most shocking mischiefs. The very best of them are mischievous and hurtful; therefore shall God quickly plunge them into just and most inextricable miseries. So terribly treacherous are they become, that no one is safe in trusting even his nearest relations: nay, none are more to be suspected

Micah 7:7-10

Therefore will I by faith and patience wait on the Lord, and pray and look for deliverance and safety from him alone, as my God in Christ; nor shall mine enemies have any reason to rejoice over and insult me, for the all-sufficient Janovan shall support, comfort, and deliver me in all my troubles. I will therefore justify God, and submit to his corrections, as procured by my own iniquity, until he revenge the injuries done to me, and publicly own me as his, and honour me to behold the exertions of his equity, mercy, and faithfulness, and till the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syro-grecians, Romans, Antichristians, and Mahometans, who have oppressed us, be altogether disgraced and ruined

Micah 7:11-13

Though the country shall be desolated on account of the sins of the inhabitants, yet, whenever the time fixed in God’s purpose, for relieving the nation, rebuilding Jerusalem or other cities, and for the re-establishment of the churches, comes, all restraints and hindrances shall be entirely taken out of the way, and the gospel preached over all the world; and not only shall the Jews return from all lands in which they have been dispersed, but Gentiles from all parts of the world shall be converted to Christ

Micah 7:14

Lord, since thy peculiar people must be thus destroyed and scattered, do thou, as their Shepherd, care for, protect, direct, and provide for them as a nation separated from the world; and bring them back to their wonted habitations and happiness

Micah 7:15-17

I the Lord will do as great things for them as I did when I brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt. And the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syro-grecians, Romans, Papists, or Mahometans, shall in their turns be astonished at the wonderful deliverance