Micah 6:13

13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin^[a] you because of your sins.

Micah 6:13 in Other Translations

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

13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.

13 “Therefore, I will wound you! I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.

13 I'm fed up. Beginning now, you're finished. You'll pay for your sins down to your last cent.

13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

13 I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins.

13 "As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, bringing desolation because of your sins.

13 So I will strike you down. I will destroy you because you have sinned so much.

Micah 6:13 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee
With the rod to be heard, ( Micah 6:9 ) ; by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the Targum,

``and I brought upon thee illness and a stroke.''

The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and I began to smite thee"; as by Hazael, king of Syria, and Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, who had carried part of them captive; in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins;
went on, not only to make them sick, and bring them into a declining state, but into utter desolation; as by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, who carried Israel captive; and by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who led Judah captive, because of their sins of idolatry, injustice, and oppression, with others that abounded among them.

Micah 6:13 In-Context

11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?

12 Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.

14 You will eat but not be satisfied; your stomach will still be empty.You will store up but save nothing, because what you save I will give to the sword.

15 You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 6:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you;" / "I will ruin"