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12 People will flock to you
    from Assyria and Egypt,
from Babylonia[a]
    and everywhere else.
13 Those nations will suffer disaster
    because of what they did.

Micah's Prayer and the Lord's Answer

14 Lead your people, Lord!
    Come and be our shepherd.
Grasslands surround us,
    but we live in a forest.
So lead us to Bashan and Gilead,[b]
and let us find pasture
    as we did long ago.

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Footnotes

  1. 7.12 Babylonia: The Hebrew text has “the river,” meaning the Euphrates River, which stood for Babylonia.
  2. 7.14 Bashan and Gilead: Two regions east of the Jordan River, known for their fertile pasturelands.

12 In that day people will come to you
    from Assyria(A) and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates
    and from sea to sea
    and from mountain to mountain.(B)
13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
    as the result of their deeds.(C)

Prayer and Praise

14 Shepherd(D) your people with your staff,(E)
    the flock of your inheritance,
which lives by itself in a forest,
    in fertile pasturelands.[a](F)
Let them feed in Bashan(G) and Gilead(H)
    as in days long ago.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:14 Or in the middle of Carmel