Micah 7:7

But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God my Saviour: my God will hear me.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

In Context

6For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's enemies are they of his own household.

8Rejoice not, thou, my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:18Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels that his rider may fall backward.

Psalms 4:2When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalms 37:7Be subject to the Lord and pray to him Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Psalms 40:1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

Psalms 55:16Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent.

Matthew Henry on Micah 7:2-7

The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 700.) 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit. 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his… Read the whole commentary →

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