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Contemporary English Version

Micah 6:13

Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Disease;   Health-Disease;   Sickness;   Sin;   The Topic Concordance - Satisfaction;   Sin;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Steal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Testimony;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Micah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prophecy, Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grief;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sick;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,bringing desolation because of your sins.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
King James Version
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
English Standard Version
Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
New American Standard Bible
"So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Making you desolate because of your sins.
New Century Version
As for me, I will make you sick. I will attack you, ruining you because of your sins.
Amplified Bible
"So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating and devastating you, because of your sins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.
Legacy Standard Bible
So also I will make you sick, striking you down,Desolating you because of your sins.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore I will strike you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore, I am starting to strike you down, to destroy you because of your sins.
Darby Translation
Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee; I will make [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I have begun to punish you. I will destroy you because of your sins.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore I will begin to smite you, and will make you desolate because of your sins.
Good News Translation
So I have already begun your ruin and destruction because of your sins.
Lexham English Bible
And I also have made you sick by striking you down, making you desolate because of your sins.
Literal Translation
And I also have made you sick, to strike you, making you desolate because of your sins.
American Standard Version
Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
Bible in Basic English
So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore I also do smite thee with a grievous wound; I do make thee desolate because of thy sins.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore I wyll take in hande to punishe thee, and to make thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.
English Revised Version
Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
World English Bible
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y therfor bigan for to smyte thee, in perdicioun on thi synnes.
Update Bible Version
Therefore I also have smitten you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate because of your sins.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
New English Translation
I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.
New King James Version
"Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.
New Living Translation
"Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.
New Life Bible
So I have begun to punish you, to destroy you because of your sins.
New Revised Standard
Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover also, I, have made thee sick with smiting thee, - laying thee waste because of thy sins.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.
Young's Literal Translation
And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore I will take in honde to punysh the, and to make the desolate, because of thy synnes.

Contextual Overview

9 I am the Lord , and it makes sense to respect my power to punish. So listen to my message for the city of Jerusalem: 10 You store up stolen treasures and use dishonest scales. 11 But I, the Lord , will punish you for cheating with weights and with measures. 12 You rich people are violent, and everyone tells lies. 13 Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless. 14 You will eat, but still be hungry; you will store up goods, but lose everything— I, the Lord , will let it all be captured in war. 15 You won't harvest what you plant or use the oil from your olive trees or drink the wine from grapes you grow. 16 Jerusalem, this will happen because you followed the sinful example of kings Omri and Ahab. Now I will destroy you and your property. Then the people of every nation will make fun and insult you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I make: Leviticus 26:16, Deuteronomy 28:21, Deuteronomy 28:22, Job 33:19-22, Psalms 107:17, Psalms 107:18, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6, Jeremiah 14:18, Acts 12:23

in: Lamentations 1:13, Lamentations 3:11, Hosea 5:9, Hosea 13:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:14 - send all 1 Kings 22:34 - wounded Job 16:7 - he hath Jeremiah 14:17 - with a very Lamentations 5:17 - our heart Hosea 9:2 - floor Acts 24:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.
Genesis 6:4
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
Genesis 6:6
He was very sorry that he had made them,
Genesis 6:7
and he said, "I'll destroy every living creature on earth! I'll wipe out people, animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them."
Genesis 6:10
He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11
God knew that everyone was terribly cruel and violent.
Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi, you are brothers, each a gruesome sword.
Jeremiah 51:13
People of Babylon, you live along the Euphrates River and are surrounded by canals. You are rich, but now the time has come for you to die.
Amos 8:2
and asked, "Amos, what do you see?" "A basket of ripe fruit," I replied. Then he said, "This is the end for my people Israel. I won't forgive them again.
Hebrews 11:7
Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the people of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee,.... With the rod to be heard, Micah 6:9; by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the Targum,

"and I brought upon thee illness and a stroke.''

The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and I began to smite thee"; as by Hazael, king of Syria, and Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, who had carried part of them captive;

in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins; went on, not only to make them sick, and bring them into a declining state, but into utter desolation; as by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, who carried Israel captive; and by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who led Judah captive, because of their sins of idolatry, injustice, and oppression, with others that abounded among them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 6:13. Will 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.


 
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