Micah 7 · Verse 13

Micah 7:13

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Micah 7:13, King James Version

Micah 7:13 in other translations

BSBThen the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
WEBYet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
ASVYet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
YLTAnd the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.
DARBYBut the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
BBEBut the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.
WebsterNotwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

What does Micah 7:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. However glorious the prospect of restoration, the Jews are not to forget the visitation on their "land" which is to intervene for the "fruit of (evil caused by) their doings" (compare Pr 1:31; Is 3:10, 11; Jr 21:14).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Micah 7:8-13

Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badness of our hearts. We must depend upon God to work deliverance for us in due time. We must not only look to him, but look for him. In our greatest distresses, we shall see no reason to despair of salvation, if by faith we look…

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Micah 7:13 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.

וְהָיְתָ֥הve.ha.ye.Tahand it will becomeH1961
הָאָ֛רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776
לִשְׁמָמָ֖הlish.ma.Mah<into> a desolationH8077
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יֹֽשְׁבֶ֑יהָyo.she.Vei.hainhabitants itsH3427
מִפְּרִ֖יmi.pe.Rifrom [the] fruit ofH6529
מַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם\׃\ \סMa.'a.lei.Hemdeeds theirH4611

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Cross references for Micah 7:13

  • Isaiah 3:10-11

    Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  • Jeremiah 25:11

    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

  • Micah 6:13

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

  • Jeremiah 17:10

    I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Leviticus 26:33-39

    And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. …

  • Proverbs 5:22

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  • Isaiah 6:11-13

    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, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

  • Galatians 6:7-8

    Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • Jeremiah 32:19

    Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  • Luke 21:20-24

    And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. …

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Isaiah 24:3-8

    The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Not withstanding the land shall be. or, After that the landhath been.
Le 26:33-39; Isa 6:11-13; 24:3-8; Jer 25:11; Da 4:26,27
Lu 21:20-24
for.
3:12; Job 4:8; Pr 1:31; 5:22; 31:31; Isa 3:10,11; Jer 17:10; 21:14
Jer 32:19; Ga 6:7,8

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Context

  • Micah 7:12

    In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

  • Micah 7:13

    Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Micah 7:14

    Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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Micah 7:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y la tierra con sus moradores será asolada por el fruto de sus obras.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais le pays sera une désolation, à cause de ses habitants, pour le fruit de leurs actions.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und das Land wird zur Wüste werden um seiner Bewohner willen, wegen der Frucht ihrer Handlungen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et terra erit in desolationem propter habitatores suos, et propter fructum cogitationum eorum.