Timeline of the Bible God creates the world. --- God destroys the world with the flood, but saves  Noah and his family.---  God chooses Abraham and his descendants to His people. ---Abraham's grandson, Jacob, has 12 sons who lead the 12 tribes of Israel.--- The Israelites become slaves in Egypt.--- God helps the Israelites escape and leads them to Canaan. ---The Israelites fight in wars and take control of Canaan.---Judges lead the Israelites, but the Israelites want to have kings instead of judges. ---    David is Israel's greatest king. ---   Israel divides into 2 parts: Israel and Judah.--- ► This book of the Bible happens between theses times The people of Israel and Judah continue to sin and worship false gods.--- God allows the Assyrians and the Babylonians to take the Israelites out of Israel and Judah.--◄-   The Israelites (Jews) live in Babylonia and then Persia. --- When Persia defeats the Babylonians, the Jews go back to Judah.--- The Jews build God's Temple in Jerusalem again.--- Greece defeats Persia, and the Greeks control Judah (also now called Israel).--- The Jews become independent for 100 years.-- The Romans take control of Israel.--- Jesus is born. At age 30, Jesus begins his ministry. ---Jesus is crucified and then is resurrected.     A Roman named Saul is converted to Christianity and becomes Paul.--- Christianity spreads. ---      Paul write letters to Christians in other places. In the year, 70 A.D., God's Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed again.

 

The prophets told people what God wanted them to know.  The prophets' books started in the time soon after Solomon died and went until the time that the Jews returned from Persia.
Prophets are classified as major or minor.  Major prophets wrote long books, and minor prophets wrote short books.

 

 

 

Micah 1 - 7 Micah warns the people to stop sinning. Micah warns that they will be carried away. Micah says that God will save them and bring them home.

 

Micah tells the people that judgment is coming

Micah 1

This is what God said to Micah.  Micah was a Morasthite from the city of Moresheth. He lived when these kings were the rulers of Israel: Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.  Micah told the people what God said about the cities of Samaria and Jerusalem. 
[1] The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Micah said, "Listen, all people on earth. The Lord is in his holy temple. This is what the Lord God says about you.
[2] Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

The Lord will come down from His holy place.  He will come down and walk on the earth. The mountains will melt when He walks on them. The valleys will melt like wax. The waters will flow fast.
[3] For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
[4] And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

This will happen because of Israel's sins. In the city of Samaria in Israel, there are places where the people worship idols. So, the Lord will destroy Samaria. It will be an empty field.
[5] For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
[6] Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

The idol statues will be broken into pieces. The temple prostitutes will be destroyed with fire.
[7] And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

 

Micah and the people in other cities will cry and  mourn for Samaria

This is how Micah will mourn:

I will cry loudly. I will be naked. I will scream like a dragon and cry like an owl.
[8] Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

I will cry because their injuries cannot be healed. Trouble is coming.
[9] For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


Micah doesn't want Israel's enemies to know they are mourning, but the other cities will mourn.

Don't talk about it in Gath. Don't cry at all. In the house of Aphrah, roll in the dust to show mourning.
[10] Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

The people who live in Saphir will pass away. The people who live in Zaanan did not come to mourn for Beth-ezel.
[11] Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

The people who lived in Maroth waited for something good to happen. But it was evil that came from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
[12] For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

You people who live in Lachish, tie the chariot to a fast horse. This is the beginning of the sin to Israel. The guilt of Israel was found in you.
[13] O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Give presents to say goodbye to Moresheth-gath.  The kings of Israel will be disappointed by Achzib.
[14] Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

I will send someone to you, people of Mareshah.  He will come to the glory of Israel, Adullam.
[15] Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

Pull your hair until you are bald to mourn for them.  Once they are gone, they will not come back.
[16] Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
 

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Micah 2


Micah tells the people that God will punish them because they have sinned.
 

God says that He will punish the whole family.
[3] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

When that day comes, people will sing songs against you. They will say how the Lord took away your land.
[4] In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
 

Then, you will not have any part of the Lord's people.
[5] Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

They tell me not to say anymore about the future. They say these things won't happen.
[6] Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.


I say to the Jewish people that my words are for their own good.
[7] O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
 

Micah tells what the people have done wrong. He tells them God will punish them.

Even recently, my people have acted  like enemies.  You take the shirt off the honest people. You have kicked widows out of their homes.  You have taken Me away from their children.
[8] Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
[9] The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

Get up and go away. This is not your home. It is dirty and will destroy you.
[10] Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

You want a prophet to lie to you. You want a prophet that tells you to get drunk.
[11] If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.


In the future, I will get you together - all you descendants of Jacob. I will gather the people left of Israel. I will put them together like sheep. There will be many of them, and they will make a lot of noise.
[12] I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

The Messiah will lead you out of the pen. He will go in front of you and take you back to Israel.
[13] The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
 

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Micah 3

Micah talks about some of the people who have influenced Israel to sin. They will be punished.

Leaders who influence Israel to sin.

And I said, "Listen to me, leaders of Israel. Evil people who hurt other people will be punished.
[1] And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
[2] Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
[3] Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

You do evil things, then you cry to the Lord God. But He will not hear you. He will hide His face from them."
[4] Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Prophets who influence Israel to sin.

That's what God says about the prophets who make Israel sin. They are cruel and say they want Peace.  They prepare to fight against people who have been good to them.
[5] Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

So, it will always be dark for you. You will not dream and have visions. It will be dark so you can't tell the future. When the day is over, the prophets will be in the dark.
[6] Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Fortune tellers who influence Israel to sin.

The people who think they can tell the future will be quiet. God will not answer them.
[7] Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

I am full of power from God's spirit. I am here to tell you about Israel's sins.
[8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


I am asking you to hear this, all you leaders in Israel who hate judgment.
[9] Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

They build up Zion with blood. They fill up Jerusalem with unfairness.
[10] They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Family leaders and priests who influence Israel to sin.

The heads of the families and the priests want money. In time, they will lean on the Lord. They will say that God is with them and nothing bad can happen to them.  They will say that no one will hurt them because the reward will protect them.
[11] The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.


God will punish Israel, and Jerusalem will be destroyed.

Zion will be plowed. Jerusalem will become piles of rubble.
[12] Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
 

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Micah 4
 

The future when God rules.


In the last days, God's house will be high in the mountains.  It will be high above the hills. People will go into it.   Many nations will go there. They will want God to teach them what do do. They will obey Him. God will give His laws from Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.
[1] But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
[2] And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

God will judge the people. He will scold faraway nations. They will hammer their swords so they will become tools for farming.  They will hammer their spears into tools to prune trees. The nations will not fight against each other any more.
[3] And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Everyone will sit on his own land.  No one will make them afraid. That is what God said.
[4] But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

We will walk in the name of the Lord God forever and ever.
[5] For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

God said in that day, He will bring back the people who have had a hard time. He will make them strong again. He will be king from Mt. Zion forever and ever.
[6] In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
[7] And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

Jerusalem will be the strong city again in the future.
[8] And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
 

Before God's kingdom comes, Israel and Judah will go through hard times. They will be carried away to Babylon.

But you are crying now. Why? You don't have a king. You cry like a woman in labor.
[9] Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

You will have to leave the city now. You will have to go to Babylon. But the Lord will save you. He will bring you out of the hand of your enemies.
[10] Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Now, many nations are against you.  They want to hurt you. But they don't understand what God is thinking.  He will gather your enemies like wheat. You will beat them and step on them like you are threshing wheat. You will give their money and wealth to the Lord.
[11] Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
[12] But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
[13] Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
 

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Micah 5

Get your armies together. The enemy is fighting us. They will hit the judge of Israel on the cheek with a stick.           
[1] Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


A king, a Savior will come from Bethlehem.

But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, even though you are a small town, the king of Israel will come from you. He has lived forever.
[2] But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

God will give His people to the enemy until she delivers the baby. Then, the Jews that are left will return to the children of Israel.
[3] Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

He will stand and be strong in the Lord's name.  He will be great in all the earth. They will be safe.
[4] And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

This man will be the peace when the Assyrians come to our land. Then we will fight them with 7 shepherds and 8 special men.
[5] And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

They will defeat Assyria and Nimrod's area with swords. He will save us from Assyria when the Assyrians come into our land.
[6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
 

The Jews that are left will be a small number. They will be with the non-Jewish Gentiles. They will be like sheep with young lions around them.  The young lions will tear them into pieces.
[7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
[8] And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.


Your enemies will be cut off. On that day, I will destroy the horses and chariots. I will cut off the cities and break down the fortresses.
[9] Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
[10] And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
[11] And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:


I will cut off witchcraft from your land.  You will have no more fortune tellers. I will also destroy the idols you have made. I will destroy the groves of trees you made for worshiping idols.  I will destroy your cities. I will show my angel and vengeance. It will be the first time they ever heard anything like it.
[12] And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
[13] Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
[14] And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
[15] And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
 

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Micah 6

God wants to know why the people sin and complain all the time.

Listen to what God is saying. God wants Israel to say why they complain and sin all the time.
[1] Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
[2] Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

God says, "What have I done to you? How have I made you broken? Tell Me why you are complaining. I brought you up out of Egypt. I made you free. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.
[3] O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
[4] For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


Micah talks about how the people sin and how they should obey God.

Oh, my people, remember what Balak (the king of Moab) said. Remember what Balaam (the son of Beor) said (this was from back in Numbers, when Balak the king wanted Balaam to curse the Israelites).
[5] O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

How should I come to the Lord? How should I bow to the high God? Should I come and bring burnt offerings of a year old calf?
[6] Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Will the Lord be happy about thousands of male sheep or with 10,000 rivers of oil? Should I give my first child to pay for my sins? Should I trade the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.
[7] Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He has showed you, Man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you. He requires you to be fair, love mercy, and to walk with God humbly.
[8] He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

The Lord's voice cries to the city.  Wise men will see your name. They will hear the rod and who makes it.
[9] The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Do you have treasures from being wicked and dishonest?
[10] Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

Should I be dishonest when I count things and weigh things?
[11] Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

The rich men are violent. The people who live inside have told lies. 
[12] For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Now I will punish you because of your sins.
[13] Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

You will eat, but you won't feel full. You will not succeed in anything you try to do. You will plant, but you will not harvest. You will walk on olives, but you will not get the oil.  You will make sweet wine, but you will not drink the wine.
[14] Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
[15] Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
 

You have copied the bad kings, Omri and Ahab, and you do what they do. You will be looked down on.
[16] For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
 

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Micah compares the current time with a famine.

Micah 7

I am very sad! I am like people who go out to pick food in the garden, but there is nothing there.
[1] Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

There are no good people left on the earth. There is no one good. They all want to kill other people.
[2] The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.


The leaders are corrupt and take bribes.

They do evil things. They pay bribes to the leaders so they don't get in trouble.
[3] That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.


The best of them are like thorns and stickers. But their time is coming.
[4] The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.


Even families fight with each other.

Don't trust anyone. Be careful what you say.
[5] Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Even people in families fight with each other and treat each other badly.
[6] For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

Micah has hope, and he waits for God to save them.

So, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for God to save me. My God will hear me.
[7] Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Don't be happy, my enemy.  When I fall, I will get back up.  When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
[8] Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.


I will take my punishment because I sinned against God.  But God will bring me out of the darkness into the light.  I will see His righteousness.
[9] I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

My enemy will see this. She had asked me where my God was. Now she will be defeated in the streets.
[10] Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
 

That will be a happy day when you build the wall around Jerusalem again.  That will be the day when you come back from far away.
[11] In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
[12] In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

But some will have empty land because of the bad things they did..
[13] Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.


They will live in good land again.

Feed your people. They are your heritage.  They will eat in Bashan, Gilead, and Carmel like they did before.
[14] Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

I will do miracles like I did when you came out of Egypt.
[15] According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

The other nations will be confused. They will put their hands over their mouths and they won't be able to hear anything.
[16] The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
 

They will crawl in the dirt like snakes. They will come out of their holes like worms. They will be afraid of the Lord our God.
[17] They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
 

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Micah praises God for helping them.

Who is a god like You? You forgive sins. You don't stay mad forever. He is merciful.
[18] Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

He will have compassion on us again.  He will throw our sins into the deep oceans.
[19] He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

You will keep your promises to Jacob and Abraham that You made a long time ago.
[20] Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.