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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not trust a neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">put no confidence in a friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">Even with the woman who lies in your embrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">guard the words of your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For a son dishonors his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter rises up against her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a man&#8217;s enemies are the members of his own household.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But as for me, I watch in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">I wait for God my Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">my God will hear me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Will Rise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not gloat over me, my enemy!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I have fallen, I will rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I sit in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be my light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because I have sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will bear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">until he pleads my case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">and upholds my cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">He will bring me out into the light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will see his righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then my enemy will see it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">and will be covered with shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">she who said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">My eyes will see her downfall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">even now she will be trampled underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">like mire in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The day for building your walls will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">the day for extending your boundaries.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day people will come to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">even from Egypt to the Euphrates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from mountain to mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">as the result of their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer and Praise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Shepherd your people with your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">the flock of your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">which lives by itself in a forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">in fertile pasturelands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the middle of Carmel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">as in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;As in the days when you came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">I will show them my wonders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nations will see and be ashamed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">deprived of all their power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">They will put their hands over their mouths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">and their ears will become deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They will lick dust like a snake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">like creatures that crawl on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">They will come trembling out of their dens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">they will turn in fear to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">and will be afraid of you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Who is a God like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">who pardons sin and forgives the transgression</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">of the remnant of his inheritance?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">You do not stay angry forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">but delight to show mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will again have compassion on us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">you will tread our sins underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You will be faithful to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">and show love to Abraham,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">as you pledged on oath to our ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div>
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