Micah 6:13

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“Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.”

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BSBPD

“Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Micah 6:13 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Job 33:19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
  4. Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
  5. 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.
  6. Isaiah 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
  7. 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.’”
  8. 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.
  9. Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
  10. Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  11. Hosea 5:9Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.

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