Discovery BoxMicah 7:10 
Context7:10 When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame.
They say 1 to me, “Where is the Lord your God?”
I will gloat over them. 2
Then they will be trampled down 3
like mud in the streets.
Micah 7:17-18
Context7:17 They will lick the dust like a snake,
like serpents crawling on the ground. 4
They will come trembling from their strongholds
to the Lord our God; 5
they will be terrified 6 of you. 7
7:18 There is no other God like you! 8
You 9 forgive sin
and pardon 10 the rebellion
of those who remain among your people. 11
You do not remain angry forever, 12
but delight in showing loyal love.
1 tn Heb “who say.” A new sentence was begun here in the translation for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “My eyes will look on them.”
3 tn Heb “a trampled-down place.”
4 tn Heb “like crawling things on the ground.” The parallelism suggests snakes are in view.
5 tn Thetranslationassumesthatthe phrase אֶל־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ (’el-yÿhvah ’elohenu, “to the
6 tn Heb “they will be in dread and afraid.”
7 tn The
8 tn Heb “Who is a God like you?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No one!”
9 tn Heb “one who.” The prayer moves from direct address (second person) in v. 18a to a descriptive (third person) style in vv. 18b-19a and then back to direct address (second person) in vv. 19b-20. Due to considerations of English style and the unfamiliarity of the modern reader with alternation of persons in Hebrew poetry, the entire section has been rendered as direct address (second person) in the translation.
10 tn Heb “pass over.”
11 tn Heb “of the remnant of his inheritance.”
12 tn Heb “he does not keep hold of his anger forever.”
