Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;
Micah 6:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore I have also smitten you with a deadly wound and made you sick, laying you desolate, waste, and deserted because of your sins. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins. Common English Bible So I have made you sick by striking you! I have struck you because of your sins. Catholic Public Domain Version And I, therefore, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins. |
Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;
If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.
From on high he sent fire; it went deep into my bones; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all day long.
Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.