Micah 6:13

So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

14You 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

Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

Psalms 107:17Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

Isaiah 6:11Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

Lamentations 5:16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:10-16

Accusations and Threatenings. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The Lord 's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their… Read the whole commentary →

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