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Legacy Standard Bible

Micah 7:13

And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,On account of the fruit of their deeds.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Atonement;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Micah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Micah, Book of;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the earth will become a wastelandbecause of its inhabitantsand as a result of their actions.
Hebrew Names Version
Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.
King James Version (1611)
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruite of their doings.
King James Version
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
English Standard Version
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.
New American Standard Bible
And the earth will become a wasteland because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds.
New Century Version
The earth will be ruined for the people who live in it because of their deeds.
Amplified Bible
Yet the earth [beyond the land of Israel] shall become desolate because of those who dwell in it, Because of the fruit of their deeds.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Notwithstanding, the lande shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, and for the fruites of their inuentions.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.
Contemporary English Version
Those nations will suffer disaster because of what they did.
Complete Jewish Bible
The earth will be desolate for those living in it, as a result of their deeds.
Darby Translation
But the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Easy-to-Read Version
The land was ruined by the people who lived there and by what they did.
George Lamsa Translation
Nevertheless the land shall be desolate to its inhabitants because of the fruit of their doings.
Good News Translation
But the earth will become a desert because of the wickedness of those who live on it.
Lexham English Bible
But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.
Literal Translation
But the land shall become a waste because of those dwelling in it, from the fruit of their doings.
American Standard Version
Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Bible in Basic English
But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the land shall be desolate for them that dwell therein, because of the fruit of their doings.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Notwithstanding, the land must be wasted, because of them that dwell therin, and for the fruites of their owne imaginations.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.
English Revised Version
Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
World English Bible
Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And erthe schal be in to desolacioun for her dwelleris, and for fruyt of the thouytis of hem.
Update Bible Version
Yet the land shall be desolate because of those that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Webster's Bible Translation
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.
New English Translation
The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.
New King James Version
Yet the land shall be desolate Because of those who dwell in it, And for the fruit of their deeds.
New Living Translation
But the land will become empty and desolate because of the wickedness of those who live there.
New Life Bible
The earth will be laid waste because of its people and the things they have done.
New Revised Standard
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Though the land become a desolation, because of them that dwell therein, - by reason of the fruit of their doings.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices.
Revised Standard Version
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
Young's Literal Translation
And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Not wt stondinge the londe must be waisted, because of them that dwell therin, and for the frutes of their owne ymaginacions.

Contextual Overview

7But as for me, I will watch expectantly for Yahweh;I will wait for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me. 8Do not be glad over me, O my enemy.Though I fall I will rise;Though I inhabit the darkness, Yahweh is a light for me. 9I will bear the rage of YahwehBecause I have sinned against Him,Until He pleads my case and does justice for me.He will bring me out to the light,And I will see His righteousness. 10Then my enemy will see,And shame will cover her who said to me,"Where is Yahweh your God?"My eyes will look on her;At that time she will be trampled downLike mire of the streets. 11It will be a day for building your walls.On that day your boundary will be extended. 12It will be a day when they will come to youFrom Assyria and the cities of Egypt,From Egypt even to the River,Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. 13And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,On account of the fruit of their deeds.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Not withstanding the land shall be, or, After that the land hath been, Leviticus 26:33-39, Isaiah 6:11-13, Isaiah 24:3-8, Jeremiah 25:11, Daniel 4:26, Daniel 4:27, Luke 21:20-24

for: Micah 3:12, Job 4:8, Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 31:31, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 32:19, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:10 - they took it Isaiah 17:9 - General Jeremiah 7:34 - for Jeremiah 34:22 - and I will Ezekiel 12:19 - that her Ezekiel 20:35 - I will Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Micah 5:3 - Therefore Zephaniah 1:2 - I will Zephaniah 1:17 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was 500 years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:10
And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:2
You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;
Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.
Genesis 7:9
by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:18
And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the water.
Genesis 7:19
And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate,.... Not the land of Chaldea, as some; or the land of the nations, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but the land of Israel. That part of it, which was possessed by the ten tribes, was made desolate by Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and that which was inhabited by the two tribes, by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and this desolation was to be, "notwithstanding" the above prophecies, and prior to the fulfilment of them. So some render the words, as in the margin of our Bibles "after the land hath been desolate" g; and it is observed, partly to prevent wicked men promising themselves impunity from the above prophecies; and partly to prevent despair in good men, when such a desolation should be made. And then again it was made desolate by the Romans, previous to the spread and establishment of the church of Christ, by the success of the Gospel in the Gentile world, in the first times of it; and by the conversion of the Jews, and bringing in the fulness of the Gentiles, in, he last times of it;

because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings: because of the sins of the inhabitants of the land of Israel: the desolation made by the kings of Assyria and Babylon was for the idolatry of Israel and Judah, and other sins; and the desolation made by the Romans for the Jews rejection of the Messiah.

g והיתה הארץ לשממה "postquam fuerit haec terra desolationi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Notwithstanding - (And) the land (that is that spoken of, the land of Judah) shall be desolate not through any arbitrary law or the might of her enemies, but through the sins of the people, because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings Truly “the fruit of their doings,” what they did to please themselves, of their own minds against God. As they sow, so shall they reap. This sounds almost as a riddle and contradiction beforehand; “the walls built up,” “the people gathered in,” and “the land desolate.” Yet it was all fulfilled in the letter as well as in spirit. Jerusalem was restored; the people was gathered, first from the captivity, then to Christ; and yet the land was again desolate through the fruit of their doings who rejected Christ, and is so until this day.

The prophet now closes with one earnest prayer Micah 7:14; to which he receives a brief answer, that God would shew forth His power anew, as when He first made them His people Micah 7:15. On this, he describes vividly the awed submission of the world to their God Micah 7:16-17, and closes with a thanksgiving of marveling amazement at the greatness and completeness of the forgiving mercy of God Micah 7:18-19, ascribing all to His free goodness Micah 7:5 :20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 7:13. Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate — This should be translated in the preter tense, "Though the land HAD been desolate;" that is, the land of Israel had been desolate during the captivity, which captivity was the "fruit of the evil doings of them that had dwelt therein."


 
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