Joel Radford – What Has Happened To Our Sin? – Micah 7:8-20

Joel Radford – What Has Happened To Our Sin? – Micah 7:8-20   Israel Will Rise 8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy!     Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness,     the Lord will be my light. 9 Because I have sinned against him,     I will bear the Lord’s wrath, until he […]

Joel Radford – What Has Happened To Our Sin? – Micah 7:8-20

8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy!

    Though I have fallen, I will rise.

Though I sit in darkness,

    the Lord will be my light.

9 Because I have sinned against him,

    I will bear the Lord’s wrath,

until he pleads my case

    and upholds my cause.

He will bring me out into the light;

    I will see his righteousness.

10 Then my enemy will see it

    and will be covered with shame,

she who said to me,

    “Where is the Lord your God?”

My eyes will see her downfall;

    even now she will be trampled underfoot

    like mire in the streets.

11 The day for building your walls will come,

    the day for extending your boundaries.

12 In that day people will come to you

    from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,

even from Egypt to the Euphrates

    and from sea to sea

    and from mountain to mountain.

13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,

    as the result of their deeds.

Prayer and Praise

14 Shepherd your people with your staff,

    the flock of your inheritance,

which lives by itself in a forest,

    in fertile pasturelands.

Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead

    as in days long ago.

15 “As in the days when you came out of Egypt,

    I will show them my wonders.”

16 Nations will see and be ashamed,

    deprived of all their power.

They will put their hands over their mouths

    and their ears will become deaf.

17 They will lick dust like a snake,

    like creatures that crawl on the ground.

They will come trembling out of their dens;

    they will turn in fear to the Lord our God

    and will be afraid of you.

18 Who is a God like you,

    who pardons sin and forgives the transgression

    of the remnant of his inheritance?

You do not stay angry forever

    but delight to show mercy.

19 You will again have compassion on us;

    you will tread our sins underfoot

    and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

20 You will be faithful to Jacob,

    and show love to Abraham,

as you pledged on oath to our ancestors

    in days long ago.