Micah 6:13 “Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins…”

Micah 6:13

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making 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.

American Standard Version

Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes.

Darby Translation

Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee; I will make [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

Young's Literal Translation

And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make 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.

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Cross references

“I make”

Leviticus 26:16 Acts 12:23 Job 33:19–22 Jeremiah 14:18 Deuteronomy 28:21 Deuteronomy 28:22

Leviticus 26:16 · BSB

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Acts 12:23 · BSB

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Job 33:19–22 · BSB

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Deuteronomy 28:21 · BSB

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:22 · BSB

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

“in”

Hosea 13:16 Lamentations 1:13 Lamentations 3:11 Hosea 5:9

Hosea 13:16 · BSB

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Lamentations 1:13 · BSB

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Lamentations 3:11 · BSB

He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

Hosea 5:9 · BSB

Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

Also

Isaiah 6:11

Isaiah 6:11 · BSB

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

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