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Micah 6:13

And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy 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 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.
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 voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it? 10 As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath. 11 Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? 12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. 13 And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins. 14 Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword. 15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine. 16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

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
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:4
Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:6
It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
Genesis 6:7
He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis 6:10
And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11
And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
Genesis 6:12
And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),
Genesis 7:23
And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 49:5
Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.

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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