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For a son maligns his father,
    a daughter rebels against her mother,
a daughter-in-law rises up against her mother-in-law;
    your enemies are to be found in your own household.
But as for me, I will look to the Lord.
    I place my hope in God my savior;
    my God will hear me.

Poems of Hope[a]

I Shall Rise Up

Do not gloat over me, O my enemy.
    Although I have fallen, I will arise.
Although I sit in darkness,
    the Lord is my light.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 7:8 Because of their subjects and the events they recall, these canticles, which are liturgical in tone, seem not to date from Micah’s time; they are suited, rather, to the situation of the Jews who have returned from exile after the second half of the sixth century.