Micah 6:14
You will eat but not be satisfied; 1 your emptiness will remain inside you. 1 You will store goods away but not save, 1 and what you do save I will give to the sword. + 6:14 Parts of this verse are difficult to understand, because there are two Hebrew words in it whose meanings are not known. As a result, various other readings have been proposed that some modern versions follow. 1
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Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your food supply, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will distribute your bread by weight. You will eat but not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, 1 and in the bedrooms terror will do so. 1 It will destroy both young man and virgin, 1 the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs. 1
Isaiah 9:20They will grab food on the right hand but still be hungry; they will eat food on the left hand but will not be satisfied. 1 Each will even eat the flesh of his own arm. + 9:20 Instead of the flesh of his own arm , some versions have the flesh of his own children . 1
Isaiah 30:6A declaration about the beasts of the Negev: 1 Through the land of trouble and danger, of the lioness and the lion, 1 the viper and fiery flying serpent, 1 they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, 1 and their treasures on the camels' humps, 1 to a people who cannot help them. 1
Jeremiah 48:44Anyone who flees because of terror will fall into the pit, 1 and anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap, for I will bring this on them 1 in the year of my vengeance against them—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Ezekiel 5:12A third of you will die by plague, and they will be consumed by famine in your midst. A third will fall by the sword surrounding you. Then I will scatter a third in every direction, and draw out a sword to chase after them as well.
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 →