Micah 6:13

And I, therefore, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

12By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

14You will consume and not be satisfied, and your humiliation will be in your midst. And you will take hold, and not save, and those whom you will save, I will deliver to the sword.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:21May the Lord join a pestilence to you, until he consumes you from the land, which you shall enter so as to possess.

Isaiah 6:11And I said, “For how long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until the cities are desolate, without an inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land will be left behind, deserted.”

Lamentations 1:13MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.

Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

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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