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 be pure with wicked balances? Or with a bag of deceptive weights? 12For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit. So also I will strike you severely, desolating you because of your sins. 14You will eat but not be satisfied, and emptiness will be within you. You will try to escape, but you will not reach safety. Whatever you make safe, I will give to the sword. 15You will sow but not reap; You will tread olives but not anoint yourself with oil, and grapes 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 26:16then I will do the following to you in return. I will appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever that will dim the eyes and cause the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
• Deuteronomy 28:21Adonai will make the plague cling to you, until He has put an end to you from the land that you are going in to possess.
• Job 33:19Or a person is chastened with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
• Psalms 107:17Some became fools because of their rebellious ways, and were afflicted due to their iniquities.
• Isaiah 1:5Where will you be struck again, as you stray away more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go out into the field, see, those slain by the sword! And if I enter into the city, see, the sick with famine! For both prophet and kohen will travel to a land they do not know.
• 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 died.
• Lamentations 1:13From on high He sent fire into my bones and it overcame them. He spread out a net for my feet; He turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
• Lamentations 3:11He turned aside my paths and tore me to pieces. He has made me desolate.
• Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become desolate in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I made known what is certain.

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