Micah 6:13
New International Version
Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

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

New King James Version
“Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.

New American Standard Bible
“So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Making you desolate because of your sins.

NASB 1995
“So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.

NASB 1977
“So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.

Legacy Standard Bible
So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.

Amplified Bible
“So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating and devastating you, because of your sins.

Christian Standard Bible
“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, bringing desolation because of your sins.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, bringing desolation because of your sins.

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

Contemporary English Version
Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I have begun to strike you with heavy blows and to ruin you because of your sins.

Good News Translation
So I have already begun your ruin and destruction because of your sins.

International Standard Version
"Therefore I will make you ill when I attack you; I will bring you to ruin because of your offenses.

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

NET Bible
I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I also, I have begun to strike you, "" To make desolate, because of your sins.

Young's Literal Translation
And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

Smith's Literal Translation
And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And I, therefore, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins.

New American Bible
I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Therefore I will begin to smite you, and will make you desolate because of your sins.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Also I shall begin to strike you and I shall destroy you because of your sins
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore I also do smite thee with a grievous wound; I do make thee desolate because of thy sins.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Punishment of Israel
12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. 13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins. 14You 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.…

Cross References
Isaiah 1:5-6
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. / From 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.

Hosea 5:12-14
So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah. / When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound. / For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

Jeremiah 30:12-15
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous. / There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you. / All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. ...

Amos 4:9-10
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. / “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:59-61
He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. / He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you. / The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

Lamentations 3:39-42
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? / Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: ...

Isaiah 9:13-17
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. / So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. / The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. ...

Ezekiel 24:13-14
Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided. / I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

Leviticus 26:23-25
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, / then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. / And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

2 Kings 17:13-18
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” / But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. / They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. ...

Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Luke 19:41-44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ...

Romans 1:18-32
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. / For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. / For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. ...

Hebrews 12:6-11
For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” / Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? / If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. ...

Revelation 3:19
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.


Treasury of Scripture

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

I make.

Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Deuteronomy 28:21,22
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it…

Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …

in.

Lamentations 1:13
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Hosea 5:9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

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Micah 6
1. God's punishment for ingratitude;
6. for ignorance,
10. for injustice;
16. and for idolatry.














Therefore
This word serves as a pivotal transition, indicating a conclusion drawn from previous statements. In the context of Micah, it connects the people's persistent disobedience and injustice to the impending judgment. The Hebrew word "לָכֵן" (lakhen) often introduces divine judgment or action, underscoring the certainty and righteousness of God's response to sin.

I will strike you severely
The phrase conveys the intensity of God's impending judgment. The Hebrew verb "הִכֵּיתִי" (hiketi) means "to strike" or "to smite," often used in the context of divine retribution. This reflects God's active role in disciplining His people, not out of malice, but as a corrective measure to bring them back to righteousness. The severity underscores the seriousness of their transgressions and the need for a profound response.

to ruin you
This phrase highlights the intended outcome of the divine action. The Hebrew root "שָׁמֵם" (shamem) means "to desolate" or "to devastate," indicating a complete overthrow of the current state. Historically, this reflects the consequences faced by Israel due to their covenant unfaithfulness, often resulting in exile or destruction. It serves as a sobering reminder of the cost of sin and the holiness of God.

because of your sins
This phrase identifies the cause of the judgment. The Hebrew word "חַטֹּאת" (chatta'ot) refers to "sins" or "transgressions," emphasizing moral and spiritual failures. In the scriptural context, Israel's sins included idolatry, social injustice, and neglect of God's laws. This serves as a call to self-examination and repentance, reminding believers of the need to align with God's standards and the consequences of straying from His path.

Verses 13-16. - § 4. For all this God threatens punishment. Verse 13. - Will I make thee sick in smiting thee; literally, have made the smiting thee sick; i.e. incurable, as Nahum 3:19, or, "have made the blows mortal that are given thee." The perfect is used to express the certainty of the future. The Septuagint and Vulgate read, "I have begun [or, will begin] to smite thee."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Therefore
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

I
אֲנִ֖י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

will strike you
הַכּוֹתֶ֑ךָ (hak·kō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

severely,
הֶחֱלֵ֣יתִי (he·ḥĕ·lê·ṯî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2470: To be weak or sick

to ruin you
הַשְׁמֵ֖ם (haš·mêm)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy

because of
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

your sins.
חַטֹּאתֶֽךָ׃ (ḥaṭ·ṭō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender


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