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Micah 6:13
Micah 6:13 is verse 13 of Micah chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
King James Version
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
World English Bible
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
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Micah 6:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:21The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Job 33:19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
Job 33:21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Psalms 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”
Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
Hosea 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.