Current state of man: JB MICAH Chapter 7 | Universal injustice; Micah 7:1-7 (RSVCE) | The Total Corruption of the People
If you may be wondering why you are suffering what you are suffering at the hands of spouse; priest or layman; parent or child; brother or sister; neighbour or stranger; judge, prosecutor or defence lawyer; boss or colleague; and friend or foe.
7:1 I am in trouble! I have become like a harvester in summer time, like a gleaner at the vintage: not a single cluster to eat, not one of the early figs I so long for.
7:2 The devout have vanished from the land: there is not one honest man left. All are lurking for blood, every man hunting down his brother.
7:3 Their hands are skilled in evil: the official demands…, the judge gives judgement for a bribe, the man in power pronounces as he pleases.
7:5 Put no trust in a neighbour, have no confidence in a friend; to the woman who shares your bed do not open your mouth.
7:6 For son insults father, daughter defies mother, daughter-in-law defies mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are those of his own household.
7:4 … among them, the best is like a briar, the most honest a hedge of thorn. Today will come their ordeal from the North, now is the time for their confusion.
7:7 For my part, I look to Yahweh, my hope is in the God who will save me; my God will hear me.
7 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires. 2 The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net. 3 Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. 4 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their[a] watchmen, of their[b] punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand. 5 Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom; 6 for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house. 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.
