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 justify dishonest balances, And a bag of fraudulent weights? 12For the rich people of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Making you desolate because of your sins. 14You will eat, but you will not be satisfied, And your filth will be in your midst. You will try to remove valuables for safekeeping, But you will not save it all, And what you do save I will turn over to the sword. 15You will sow but you will not harvest. You will tread the olive press but will not anoint yourself with oil; And tread out sweet wine, but you will not drink any wine.

Micah 6:13 word by word

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

• So alsoגַּםgam · alsoH1571
• I will makeחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: illH2470
• sickחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: weakH2470
• strikingנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• Makingשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• becauseעַל‛al · uponH5921
• of your sinsחַטָּאתchaţţâ'âh chaţţâ'th · sinH2403

Cross-references for Micah 6:13

• Leviticus 26:16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will summon a sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the soul languish; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it.
• Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
• Job 33:19“A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,
• Psalms 107:17Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their guilty deeds, were afflicted.
• Isaiah 1:5Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The entire head is sick And the entire heart is faint.
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, There are those killed by the sword! Or if I enter the city, There are diseases from famine! For both prophet and priest Have wandered around in the land that they do not know.’”
• Acts 12:23And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Lamentations 1:13From the height He sent fire into my bones, And it dominated them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.
• Lamentations 3:11He has made my ways deviate, and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
• Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is trustworthy.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria will pay the penalty for her guilt, Because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their children will be slaughtered, 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