Micah 7:12-14

New International Reader's Version

¹² At 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.
¹³ But the rest of the earth will be deserted.
    The people who live in it
    have done many evil things.

¹⁴ Lord, be like a shepherd to your people.
    Take good care of them.
They are your flock.
    They live by themselves
    in the safety of a forest.
Rich grasslands are all around them.
    Let them eat grass in Bashan and Gilead
    just as they did long ago.