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New King James Version

Micah 6:13

"Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.

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.
Contemporary English Version
Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless.
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 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 The LORD's voice cries to the city-- Wisdom shall see Your name: "Hear the rod! Who has appointed it? 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination? 11 Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 "Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins. 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied;Hunger [fn] shall be in your midst.You may carry some away, [fn] 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. 16 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept;All the works of Ahab's house are done;And you walk in their counsels,That I may make you a desolation,And your inhabitants a hissing.Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people." [fn]

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
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:4
There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:6
And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
Genesis 6:10
And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12
So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 7:23
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
Genesis 49:5
"Simeon and Levi are brothers; Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place.

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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