Micah 6:13

Micah 6:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.

Context of Micah 6:13

11Can I excuse wicked scales or bags of deceptive weights? 12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful. “As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, bringing desolation because of your sins. 14You will eat but not be satisfied, for there will be hunger within you. What you acquire, you cannot save, and what you do save, I will give to the sword. 15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourself with oil; and you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Micah 6:13 word by word

וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י הֶחֱלֵ֣יתִי הַכּוֹתֶ֑ךָ הַשְׁמֵ֖ם עַל־חַטֹּאתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• sickחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: illH2470
• in smitingנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• because of thy sinsחַטָּאתchaţţâ'âh chaţţâ'th · sinH2403

Cross-references for Micah 6:13

• Leviticus 26:16then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you — wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
• Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.
• Job 33:19A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
• Psalms 107:17Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.
• Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, look — those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look — those ill from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.
• Acts 12:23At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high into my bones; he made it descend. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, sick all day long.
• Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces; he left me desolate.
• Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment; I announce what is certain among the tribes of Israel.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Commentaries on Micah 6:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Will I make thee sick in smiting thee - Perhaps better, "I also am weary with smiting thee, in making thee desolate for thy sins." They were corrected, but to no purpose; they had stroke upon stroke, but were not amended.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Therefore also will I - (Literally, And I too,) that is, this dost thou, and thus will I too do. Pococke: “As thou madest sick the heart of the poor oppressed, so will I, by My grievous and severe punishments, make thee sick,” or make thy wound incurable, as in Nahum, “thy wound is grievous,” (Nahum 3:19 literally, made sick. In making thee desolate because of thy sins. The heaping up riches shall itself be the cause of thy being waste, deserted, desolate.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-16Verses 9-16 God, having showed how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This voice of the Lord says to all, Hear the rod when it is coming, before you see it, and feel it. Hear the rod when it is come, and you are sensible of the smart; hear what counsels, what cautions it speaks. The voice of God is to be heard in the rod of God. Those who are dishonest in their dealings shall never be…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-16I am striking you severely: This phrase introduces the curses God promised to bring upon the disobedient and rebellious people of Israel (see Deuteronomy 28:15–68).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. make thee sick in smiting--(Le 26:16, to which perhaps the allusion here is, as in Mi 6:14; Psa 107:17, 18; Jr 13:13).Read the comment

Topics related to Micah 6:13

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Justly
• Grief; Grieve
• Micah (2)
• Proverbs, the Book of
• Sick; Sickness

Commentaries on Micah 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings