Micah 6 · Verse 16

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Micah 6:16, King James Version

Micah 6:16 in other translations

BSBYou have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
WEBFor the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
ASVFor the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
YLTAnd kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!
DARBYFor the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
BBEFor you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
WebsterFor the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

What does Micah 6:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. statutes of Omri--the founder of Samaria and of Ahab's wicked house; and a supporter of Jeroboam's superstitions (1Ki 16:16-28). This verse is a recapitulation of what was more fully stated before, Judah's sin and consequent punishment. Judah, though at variance with Israel on all things else, imitated her impiety. works of ... Ahab--(1Ki 21:25, 26). ye walk in their counsels--Though these superstitions were the fruit of their king's "counsels" as a master stroke of state policy, yet these pretexts were no excuse for setting at naught the counsels and will of God. that I should make thee a desolation--Thy conduct is framed so, as if it was thy set purpose "that I should make thee a desolation." inhabitants thereof--namely, of Jerusalem. hissing--(La 2:15). the reproach of my people--The very thing ye boast of, namely, that ye are "My people," will only increase the severity of your punishment. The greater My grace to you, the greater shall be your punishment for having despised it, Your being God's people in name, while walking in His love, was an honor; but now the name, without the reality, is only a "reproach" to you.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 The statutes of Omri are kept - Omri, king of Israel, the father of Ahab, was one of the worst kings the Israelites ever had; and Ahab followed in his wicked father's steps. The statutes of those kings were the very grossest idolatry. Jezebel, wife of the latter, and daughter of Ithobaal, king of Tyre, had no fellow on earth. From her Shakespeare seems to have drawn the character of Lady Macbeth; a woman, like her prototype, mixed up of tigress and fiend, without addition. Omri Ahab, and Jezebel, were the models followed by the Israelites in the days of this prophet. The inhabitants thereof a hissing - לשרקה lishrekah, "for a shriek;" because those who should see them should be both astonished and affrighted at them. There are few chapters in the prophets, or in the Bible, superior to this for genuine worth and importance. The structure is as elegant as it is impressive; and it is every way worthy of the Spirit of God.

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 6:16 in the original Hebrew

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וְיִשְׁתַּמֵּ֞רve.yish.ta.Merso <it> may be keptH8104
חֻקּ֣וֹתchu.Kot[the] statutes ofH2708
עָמְרִ֗י'a.me.RiOmriH6018
וְכֹל֙ve.Kholand everyH3605
מַעֲשֵׂ֣הma.'a.Seh<the> deed ofH4639
בֵית\־veit-[the] house ofH1004
אַחְאָ֔ב'ach.'AvAhabH256
וַתֵּלְכ֖וּva.te.le.Khuand you have walkedH1980
בְּמֹֽעֲצוֹתָ֑םbe.mo.'a.tzo.Tamin schemes theirH4156
לְמַעַן֩le.ma.'Anso asH4616
תִּתִּ֨יti.Tito make IH5414
אֹתְךָ֜'o.te.Kha<obj.> youH853
לְשַׁמָּ֗הle.sha.Mahinto a horrorH8047
וְיֹשְׁבֶ֙יהָ֙ve.yo.she.Vei.haand inhabitants itsH3427
לִשְׁרֵקָ֔הlish.re.Kahinto hissingH8322
וְחֶרְפַּ֥תve.cher.Patand [the] reproach ofH2781
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971
תִּשָּֽׂאוּ\׃\ \פti.Sa.'uyou will bearH5375

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Cross references for Micah 6:16

  • Jeremiah 51:51

    We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

  • Isaiah 25:8

    He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

  • Jeremiah 7:24

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Psalms 44:13

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • 1 Kings 16:25-33

    But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him. For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities. Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. …

  • Jeremiah 19:8

    And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

  • 1 Kings 21:25-26

    But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Ezekiel 8:17-18

    Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

  • 2 Kings 16:3

    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kings 9:8

    And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  • Jeremiah 25:9

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

  • Daniel 9:16

    O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the statutes of Omri are kept. or, he doth much keep the,etc.
1Ki 16:25-30; Ho 5:11
the works.
1Ki 16:30-33; 18:4; 21:25,26; 2Ki 16:3; 21:3; Isa 9:16; Re 2:20
ye walk.
Ps 1:1; Jer 7:24
that.
1Ki 9:8; 2Ch 29:8,9; 34:25; Jer 18:15,16; 19:8; 21:8,9; Eze 8:17,18
desolation. or, astonishment. therefore.
Ps 44:13; Isa 25:8; Jer 51:51; La 5:1; Eze 39:26; Da 9:16

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Context

  • Micah 6:15

    Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

  • Micah 6:16

    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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Micah 6:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque los mandamientos de Omri se han guardado, y toda obra de la casa de Achâb; y en los consejos de ellos anduvisteis, para que yo te diese en asolamiento, y tus moradores para ser silbados. Llevaréis por tanto el oprobio de mi pueblo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car on observe les statuts d’Omri et toutes les œuvres de la maison d’Achab; et vous marchez selon leurs conseils, afin que je fasse de toi une désolation, et de ses habitants un objet de sifflement; et vous porterez l’opprobre de mon peuple.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und man beobachtet eifrig die Satzungen Omris und alles Tun des Hauses Ahabs, und ihr wandelt in ihren Ratschlägen: auf daß ich dich zum Entsetzen mache und ihre Bewohner zum Gezisch; und ihr werdet die Schmach meines Volkes tragen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et custodisti præcepta Amri, et omne opus domus Achab, et ambulasti in voluntatibus eorum: ut darem te in perditionem, et habitantes in ea in sibilum, et opprobrium populi mei portabitis.