Micah 6 · Verse 13

Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Micah 6:13, King James Version

Micah 6:13 in other translations

BSBTherefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
WEBTherefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
ASVTherefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
YLTAnd I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
DARBYTherefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee; I will make thee desolate because of thy sins.
BBESo I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
WebsterTherefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

What does Micah 6:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 6:9-16

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…

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Micah 6:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְגַם\־ve.gam-and alsoH1571
אֲנִ֖י'a.NiIH589
הֶחֱלֵ֣יתִיhe.che.Lei.tiI will make sickH2470
הַכּוֹתֶ֑ךָha.ko.Te.kha[by] striking youH5221
הַשְׁמֵ֖םhash.MemI will make desolate [you]H8074
עַל\־'al-onH5921
חַטֹּאתֶֽךָ\׃cha.to.Te.khasins yourH2403

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Cross references for Micah 6:13

  • Psalms 107:17-18

    Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

  • Deuteronomy 28:21-22

    The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

  • Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

  • Acts 12:23

    And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

  • Hosea 13:16

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

  • Job 33:19-22

    He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Lamentations 3:11

    He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Jeremiah 14:18

    If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

  • Lamentations 1:13

    From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Isaiah 1:5-7

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Isaiah 6:11

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

  • Hosea 5:9

    Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I make.
Le 26:16; De 28:21,22; Job 33:19-22; Ps 107:17,18; Isa 1:5,6
Jer 14:18; Ac 12:23
in.
La 1:13; 3:11; Ho 5:9; 13:16

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Context

  • Micah 6:12

    For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Micah 6:13

    Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

  • Micah 6:14

    Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

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Micah 6:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por eso yo también te enflaqueceré hiriéndote, asolándote por tus pecados.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
moi aussi, je te rendrai malade en te frappant, je te rendrai désolée à cause de tes péchés.
German
Elberfelder 1871
So will auch ich dich unheilbar schlagen, dich verwüsten um deiner Sünden willen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et ego ergo cœpi percutere te perditione super peccatis tuis.