16Nations will see and be ashamed,
deprived of all their might.
They will put their hands over their mouths,
and their ears will become deaf.
17They will lick the dust like a snake,
like reptiles slithering on the ground.
They will crawl from their holes
in the presence of the LORD our God;
they will tremble in fear of You.
18Who is a God like You,
who pardons iniquity
and passes over the transgression
of the remnant of His inheritance —
who does not retain His anger forever,
because He delights in loving devotion?
19He will again have compassion on us;
He will vanquish our iniquities.
You will cast out all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
20You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and loving devotion to Abraham,
as You swore to our fathers
from the days of old.
— Micah 7:16-20