Micah 6:13
And I also, I have begun to strike you, || To make desolate, because of your sins.
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:21YHWH causes the pestilence to cleave to you until He consumes you from off the ground to where you are going in to possess it.
Psalms 107:17Fools, by means of their transgression, || And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.
Isaiah 6:11And I say, “Until when, O Lord?” And He says, “Surely until cities have been ruined without inhabitant, || And houses without man, || And the ground is ruined—a desolation,
Lamentations 1:13From above He has sent fire into my bone, || And it subdues it, He has spread a net for my feet, || He has turned me backward, || He has made me desolate—all the day sick.
Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen [from] our head, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
Hosea 13:16Samaria becomes desolate, || Because she has been rebellious against her God, || They fall by sword, || Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, || And its pregnant ones are ripped up!”
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 →