Micah 6:14 “You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with yo…”

Micah 6:14

You 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt eat, and not be satisfied, and thine emptiness [shall remain] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take away, and not save; and what thou savest will I give up to the sword.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

Bible in Basic English

You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

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Cross references

“eat”

Hosea 4:10 Isaiah 65:13 Leviticus 26:26 Haggai 1:6 Haggai 2:16 Ezekiel 4:16

Hosea 4:10 · BSB

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves

Isaiah 65:13 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:6 · BSB

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Haggai 2:16 · BSB

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

Ezekiel 4:16 · BSB

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

“and thou”

Jeremiah 48:44 Ezekiel 5:12 Amos 2:14–16 Deuteronomy 32:22–25 Isaiah 3:6–8 Isaiah 24:17–20

Jeremiah 48:44 · BSB

“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 5:12 · BSB

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Amos 2:14–16 · BSB

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

Deuteronomy 32:22–25 · BSB

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Isaiah 3:6–8 · BSB

A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

Isaiah 24:17–20 · BSB

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

Also

Isaiah 9:20 Isaiah 30:6

Isaiah 9:20 · BSB

They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.

Isaiah 30:6 · BSB

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the hu…

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

In context

13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

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