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 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 count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights? 12For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. “Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins. 14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; Hunger shall be in your midst. You may carry some away, but shall not save them; And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword. 15“You shall sow, but not reap; You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; And make sweet wine, but not drink 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 26:16I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
• Job 33:19“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,
• Psalms 107:17Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
• Isaiah 1:5Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”
• Acts 12:23Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
• Lamentations 1:13“From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet And turned me back; He has made me desolate And faint all the day.
• Lamentations 3:11He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
• Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.
• Hosea 13:16Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child 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