MICAH'S LAMENT FOR OUR DAY

MICAH 7:1-7(CEV)

"I feel so empty inside--like someone starving for grapes or figs, after the vines and trees have all been picked clean.

No one is loyal to God; no one does right. Everyone is brutal and eager to deceive everyone else. People cooperate to commit crime. Judges and leaders demand bribes, and rulers cheat in court. The most honest of them is worse than a thorn patch.

Your doom has come! Lookouts sound the warning, and everyone panics. Don't trust anyone, not even your best friend, and be careful what you say to the one you love. Sons refuse to respect their own fathers, daughters rebel against their own mothers, and daughters-in-law despise their mothers-in-law. Your family is now your enemy.

But I trust the LORD God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer."