Then I said, *Lord, how long?* He answered, *Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
Micah 6:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, *Lord, how long?* He answered, *Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes 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, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the Kohen go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Shomron will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.*
Efrayim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Yisra'el, I have made known that which will surely be.
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Yehudah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Yerushalayim.
For the statutes of `Omri 1 are kept, and all the works of the house of Ach'av. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.*
Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.