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10 My enemy said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
But my enemy will see this,
    and she will be ashamed.
At that time I will laugh at her.[a]
    People will walk over her,[b] like mud in the streets.

The Jews to Return

11 The time will come when your walls will be rebuilt.
    At that time the country will grow.
12 Your people will come back to your land.
    They will come back from Assyria and from the cities of Egypt.
They will come from Egypt
    and from the other side of the Euphrates River.
They will come from the sea in the west
    and from the mountains in the east.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:10 laugh at her Literally, “my eyes will stare at her.”
  2. Micah 7:10 enemy, laugh at her, walk over her This probably refers to an enemy city, such as the capital of Edom.

10 Then my enemy will see it
    and will be covered with shame,(A)
she who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”(B)
My eyes will see her downfall;(C)
    even now she will be trampled(D) underfoot
    like mire in the streets.

11 The day for building your walls(E) will come,
    the day for extending your boundaries.
12 In that day people will come to you
    from Assyria(F) and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
    and from sea to sea
    and from mountain to mountain.(G)

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