Micah 7:13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

English Standard Version
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.

New American Standard Bible
And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, On account of the fruit of their deeds.

King James Bible
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.

International Standard Version
The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, and as a result of their behavior.

American Standard Version
Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the land shall be made desolate, because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices.

Darby Bible Translation
But the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Young's Literal Translation
And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:10
Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Jeremiah 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Ezekiel 12:19
And say to the people of the land, Thus said the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

Micah 3:4
Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Micah 5:3
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth: then the remnant of his brothers shall return to the children of Israel.

Micah 6:13
Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:8-13 Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badness of our hearts. We must depend upon God to work deliverance for us in due time. We must not only look to him, but look for him. In our greatest distresses, we shall see no reason to despair of salvation, if by faith we look to the Lord as the God of our salvation. Though enemies triumph and insult, they shall be silenced and put to shame. Though Zion's walls may long be in ruins, there will come a day when they shall be repaired. Israel shall come from all the remote parts, not turning back for discouragements. Though our enemies may seem to prevail against us, and to rejoice over us, we should not despond. Though cast down, we are not destroyed; we may join hope in God's mercy, with submission to his correction. No hinderances can prevent the favours the Lord intends for his church.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. However glorious the prospect of restoration, the Jews are not to forget the visitation on their "land" which is to intervene for the "fruit of (evil caused by) their doings" (compare Pr 1:31; Isa 3:10, 11; Jer 21:14).