Micah 7:8-13

8My enemy, do not be happy because I am in trouble. I have fallen down, but I will get up. I am in the dark, but the Lord will be a light to me.

9I have not obeyed the Lord, so he is angry with me. He will continue to punish me, until the time when he speaks for me. Then he will make things right for me. He will bring me out into the light. He always does what is really right. And I will see that then.

10‘Why does the Lord your God not help you?’ my enemies say to me. They will see what God does for me. Then they will be very ashamed. And I will see the bad things that happen to them. Soon other people will crush them and beat them. Then they will be like wet ground in the streets under people's feet.

11But the time will come for you to build the walls of your cities again. You will make the borders of your country much wider then.

12At that time many of Assyria's people and Egypt's people will come to you. People will come to you from the countries between Egypt and the River Euphrates. They will come to you from all over the earth, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

13The other parts of the earth will become sad places where nobody lives. God will destroy them because of the people who live there. Those people have done what is bad.