11 This is [a]the day, that thy walls shall be built: this day shall drive far away [b]the decree.

12 In this day also they shall come unto thee from [c]Assyria, and from the strong cities, and from the strongholds even unto the river, and from Sea to Sea, and from mountain to mountain.

13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, and for the fruits of [d]their inventions.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:11 To wit, when God shall show himself a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his enemies.
  2. Micah 7:11 Meaning, the cruel empire of the Babylonians.
  3. Micah 7:12 When the Church shall be restored, they that were enemies afore, shall come out of all the corners of the world unto her, so that neither holds, rivers, seas, nor mountains shall be able to let them.
  4. Micah 7:13 Afore this grace appear, he showeth how grievously the hypocrites themselves shall be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin shall be made waste because of their wickedness.

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