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What does Micah 7:15 mean?
"“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”"
— Micah 7:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.
Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”
The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Explanation
Micah 7:15 records God's promise to his people: "As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things." In plain language, God is saying that he will act again on behalf of his people in a way that echoes the great deliverance he performed when he brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt. The "marvelous things" point back to the plagues, the parting of the sea, and the miraculous provision in the wilderness — the defining rescue story of Israel's identity as a nation.
Micah was a prophet who ministered in Judah during the eighth century BC, a contemporary of Isaiah, speaking to a nation facing corruption among its leaders, exploitation of the poor, and impending judgment from surrounding empires (particularly Assyria). Much of the book pronounces harsh warnings of coming devastation because of Israel and Judah's injustice and idolatry. However, chapter 7 shifts dramatically in tone. After confessing the nation's sin and expressing hope while waiting for God (7:7-10), the passage mo
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