English Standard Version
Micah 6:13
13Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.
Context of Micah 6:13
11Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins. 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword. 15You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Read all of Micah 6Micah 6:13 word by word
וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י הֶחֱלֵ֣יתִי הַכּוֹתֶ֑ךָ הַשְׁמֵ֖ם עַל־חַטֹּאתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Micah 6:13
- Leviticus 26:16then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
- Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
- Job 33:19"Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
- Psalms 107:17Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
- Isaiah 1:5Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'"
- Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
- Lamentations 1:13"From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.
- Lamentations 3:11he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
- Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.
- Hosea 13:16Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in 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
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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
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