Micah 7:7

Amplified Bible

But as for me, I will look expectantly for the LORD and with confidence in Him I will keep watch; I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But I will look to the Lord;I will wait for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me.

Hebrew Names Version
But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

King James Version (1611)
Therefore I will looke vnto you the Lord: I will waite for the God of my saluation: my God will heare me.

King James Version
Therefore I will look unto the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

English Standard Version
But as for me, I will look to the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

New American Standard Bible
But as for me, I will be on the watch for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

New Century Version
Israel says, "I will look to the Lord for help. I will wait for God to save me; my God will hear me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore I will looke vnto the Lorde: I will waite for God my Sauiour: my God will heare me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But as for me, I will watch expectantly for the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But as for me, I will watch expectantly for Yahweh;I will wait for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me.

Berean Standard Bible
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Contemporary English Version
But I trust the Lord God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer.

Complete Jewish Bible
But as for me, I will look to Adonai , I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Darby Translation
But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Easy-to-Read Version
So I will look to the Lord for help. I will wait for God to save me. My God will hear me.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God my Saviour; my God will hear me.

Good News Translation
But I will watch for the Lord ; I will wait confidently for God, who will save me. My God will hear me.

Lexham English Bible
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Literal Translation
But I will look to Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

American Standard Version
But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Bible in Basic English
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'But as for me, I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, I wil looke vp vnto the Lorde, I will patiently abyde God my sauiour: my God shall heare me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.

English Revised Version
But as for me, I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

World English Bible
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y schal biholde to the Lord, Y schal abide God my sauyour; the Lord my God schal here me.

Update Bible Version
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

New English Translation
But I will keep watching for the Lord ; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will hear my lament.

New King James Version
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

New Living Translation
As for me, I look to the Lord for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.

New Life Bible
But as for me, I will watch for the Lord. I will wait for the God Who saves me. My God will hear me.

New Revised Standard
But as for me, I will look to the Lord , I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, I, for Yahweh, will watch, I will wait for the God of my salvation, - My God, will hear me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God, my saviour: my God will hear me.

Revised Standard Version
But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Young's Literal Translation
And I -- in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuerthelesse I wil loke vp vnto ye LORDE, I wil paciently abyde God my sauioure: my God shal heare me.

THE MESSAGE
But me, I'm not giving up. I'm sticking around to see what God will do. I'm waiting for God to make things right. I'm counting on God to listen to me.

Contextual Overview

⁷But as for me, I will look expectantly for the LORD and with confidence in Him I will keep watch; I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.⁸Do not rejoice over me [amid my tragedies], O my enemy! Though I fall, I will rise; Though I sit in the darkness [of distress], the LORD is a light for me. ⁹I will bear the indignation and wrath of the LORD Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light, And I will behold His [amazing] righteousness and His remarkable deliverance. ¹⁰Then my enemy [all the pagan nations] shall see it, And shame [for despising the LORD] will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look on her [with satisfaction at her judgment]; Now she (unbelievers) will be trampled down Like mud of the streets. ¹¹It shall be a day for building your walls, On that day the boundary [of Israel] shall be [greatly] extended. ¹²It shall be a day when the Gentiles will come to you From Assyria and from the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt even to the river Euphrates, From sea to sea and from mountain to mountain. ¹³Yet the earth [beyond the land of Israel] shall become desolate because of those who dwell in it, Because of the fruit of their deeds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will look: Psalms 34:5, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17, Psalms 109:4, Psalms 142:4, Psalms 142:5, Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 45:22, Habakkuk 3:17-19, Luke 6:11, Luke 6:12

wait: Genesis 49:18, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 27:12-14, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 40:1-3, Psalms 62:1-8, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 25:9, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Luke 2:25-32

my God: Psalms 4:2, Psalms 4:3, Psalms 38:15, Psalms 50:15, Psalms 65:2, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:28 - And if Job 12:4 - calleth Job 35:14 - yet Psalms 25:3 - wait Psalms 37:24 - Though Psalms 62:5 - wait Psalms 82:8 - Arise Psalms 85:4 - O God Isaiah 17:7 - General Isaiah 22:11 - ye have Isaiah 26:8 - we Isaiah 30:18 - blessed Isaiah 50:10 - let Jeremiah 14:22 - wait Daniel 6:22 - My God Hosea 3:1 - look Hosea 9:17 - My God Joel 1:19 - to thee Habakkuk 2:3 - wait Habakkuk 3:18 - the God Zephaniah 3:8 - wait Zechariah 11:11 - that waited Philippians 4:19 - God Hebrews 12:2 - Looking James 5:8 - ye also

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
"But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark—you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

Genesis 7:15
So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.

Proverbs 22:3
A prudent and far-sighted person sees the evil [of sin] and hides himself [from it], But the naive continue on and are punished [by suffering the consequences of sin].

Matthew 24:38
"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah entered the ark,

Luke 17:27
the people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, [they were indifferent to God] until the day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Hebrews 6:18
so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 11:7
By faith [with confidence in God and His word] Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this [act of obedience] he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20
who once were disobedient, when the great patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons [Noah's family], were brought safely through the water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore I will look unto the Lord,.... Here the prophet, in the name of the church and people of God, declares what he would do in such circumstances, since there was no dependence on men of any rank, in any relation or connection with each other; he resolved to look alone to the Lord, and put his trust in him; look up to the Lord in prayer, use an humble freedom with him, place a holy confidence in him, expect all good things from him, and wait for them; look to Christ in the exercise of faith, which is, in New Testament language, a looking to Jesus; and the Targum interprets this clause of the Word of the Lord, the essential Word, who is to be looked unto, and believed in, as the Son of God, who is the true God, and eternal life; as the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world; as the Mediator between God and men: as in all his offices of Prophet, Priest, and King; as the Lord our righteousness, and as the only Saviour and Redeemer of men; and that for all things; when in darkness, for light; when weak, for strength; when sick, for healing; when hungry, for food; when disconsolate, for comfort; in short, for all supplies of grace here, and for eternal glory and happiness hereafter; and though he is in heaven, and not to be seen with our bodily eyes, yet he is held forth in the word of the Gospel, and the ordinances of it; and is to be seen there with an eye of faith:

I will wait for the God of my salvation; who is the author both of temporal, and of spiritual, and eternal salvation; for the light of his countenance, when he hides himself; for the performance of promises he has made; for answers of prayer put up to him; for discoveries of pardoning grace, having sinned against him; for help and assistance in all times of need; for the salvation of the Lord, for an application of it, for the joys and comforts of it; and for Christ the Saviour, his coming in the flesh, which all the prophets and Old Testament saints were looking and waiting for: and who, doubtless, was upon the mind and in the view of the prophet when he uttered these words,

my God will hear me; this is the language of faith, both to say that God was his God, and that he would hear and answer him; the former is the ground of the latter; God has an ear to hear when his people cry; and sooner or later it appears that he does hear, by giving an answer of peace unto them, which issues in their salvation they have been praying, looking, and waiting for. The Targum is,

"my God will receive my prayer.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - (And,) when all these things come to pass and all human help fails, “I”, for my part, “will look unto”, (literally, “on”) “the Lord” God, the Unchangeable. The prophet sets himself, I, with emphasis, against the multitude of the ungodly. When all forsake, betray, fail, when “love is waxed cold” Matthew 24:12, and men, in the last days, shall be “lovers of their ownselves” 2 Timothy 3:2, 2 Timothy 3:4, “not lovers of God”, I, - he does not say, “will trust,” but - , “will” (Jerome), “with the eye of the heart contemplating, loving, venerating God most High, and weighing His mercy and justice,” “gaze intently” with the devotion of faith toward Him, though I see Him not: yet so too I will rest “in” Him (compare Psalms 25:15; Psalms 123:1; Psalms 141:8) and “on” Him, as the eyes are accustomed to rest in trust and love and dependence, and as, on the other hand, the eyes of God “espy into” Psalms 66:7 man and dwell on him, never leaving him unbeheld.

I will “espy” Him, although from afar, with the eyes of the soul, as a watchman, (the word is the same,) looking for His coming and announcing it to others; and until He comes, “I will wait (I would wait”) with trust unbroken by any troubles or delay, as Job saith, “Though He slay me, yet will I put my trust in Him” Job 13:15. The word is almost appropriated to a longing waiting for God. “For the God of my salvation”. This too became a customary title of God , a title, speaking of past deliverances, as well as of confidence and of hope. Deliverance and salvation are bound up with God, and that, in man’s personal experience. It is not only, “Saviour God,” but “God, my Saviour,” Thou who hast been, art, and wilt be, my God, my saving God. It is a prelude to the name of Jesus, our Redeeming God. “The Lord will hear me”.

His purpose of waiting on God he had expressed wistfully. “I would wait;” for man’s longing trust must be upheld by God. Of God’s mercy he speaks confidently, “the Lord will hear me”, He, who is ever “more ready to hear than we to pray.” He has no doubts, but, as Abraham said, “the Lord will provide” Genesis 22:8, Genesis 22:14, so he, “The Lord will hear me”. So, when Jehoshaphat prayed, “We have no might against this great company that cometh, against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon Thee” 2 Chronicles 20:12, 2 Chronicles 20:15; God answered by the prophet, “Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s”. Micah unites with himself all the faithful as one, “in the unity of the spirit,” where in all are one band, looking, waiting, praying for His Coming in His kingdom. Lap.: “God is our only refuge and asylum in things desperate, and rejoices to help in them, in order to shew His supreme Power and Goodness especially to those who believe, hope, and ask it. Therefore all mistrust and despondency is then to be supremely avoided, and a certain hope and confidence in God is to be elicited. This will call forth the help of God assuredly, yea though it were by miracle, as to Lot in Sodom, to Moses and the people from Pharaoh, to David from Saul, to Hezekiah from Sennacherib, to the Maccabees from Antiochus. This our proverbs express , how God aids, when there is least sign of it.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 7:7. Therefore I will look unto the Lord — Because things are so, I will trust in the Lord more firmly, wait for him more patiently, and more confidently expect to be supported, defended, and saved.