Micah 7:8–13

Jerusalem Will Be Rebuilt

⁸The people of Jerusalem say,

“Don’t laugh when we suffer,

you enemies of ours!

We have fallen.

But we’ll get up.

Even though we sit in the dark,

the Lord will give us light.

⁹We’ve sinned against the Lord.

So he is angry with us.

That will continue until he takes up our case.

Then he’ll do what is right for us.

He’ll bring us out into the light.

Then we’ll see him save us.

¹⁰The people of Nineveh will see it too.

And they will be put to shame.

After all, they said to us,

‘Where is the Lord your God?’

But we will see them destroyed.

Soon they will be stomped on

like mud in the streets.”

¹¹People of Jerusalem, the time will come

when your walls will be rebuilt.

Land will be added to your territory.

¹²At that time your people will come back to you.

They’ll return from Assyria

and the cities of Egypt.

They’ll come from the countries

between Egypt and the Euphrates River.

They’ll return from the lands

between the seas.

They’ll come back from the countries

between the mountains.

¹³But the rest of the earth will be deserted.

The people who live in it

have done many evil things.