Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Micah 6:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy 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 said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
From on high 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.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
I also will do this unto you; I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
For her wounds are incurable: for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.