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

11I cannot tolerate dishonest scales and bags filled with inaccurate weights. 12The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully. I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins. 14You will eat, but you won’t be full. So you will always be hungry. You will put things away, but you won’t save them. Anything you save I will destroy. 15You will plant, but you won’t harvest. You will crush olives, but you won’t rub the oil on your skin. You will make new wine, but you won’t drink it.

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 this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
• Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will send one plague after another on you until he wipes you out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of.
• Job 33:19In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined with endless aching in their bones
• Psalms 107:17Fools suffered because of their disobedience and because of their crimes.
• Isaiah 1:5“Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is failing.
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they haven’t heard of.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, an angel from the Lord killed Herod for not giving glory to God. Herod was eaten by maggots, and he died.
• Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from above. He made it go deep into my bones. He spread a net for my feet. He made me turn back. He has left me devastated. He has made me sick all day long.
• Lamentations 3:11He has forced me off the road I was taking, torn me to pieces, and left me with nothing.
• Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become a wasteland when the time for punishment comes. I will make the truth known among the tribes of Israel.
• Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria are guilty as charged because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed in war, their children will be smashed to death, and their pregnant women will be 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