Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Micah 6:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
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Quick Meaning
This verse begins punishment with sickness, smiting, and desolation because of sins.
Read It With
- Micah 6:9-16
Read Micah 6:13 with 6:9-16. This verse begins punishment with sickness, smiting, and desolation because of sins. The complete unit establishes this movement: The justice required in 6:8 is violated through deceptive measures, violent wealth, and lies; the resulting covenant-curse reversals make eating, saving, sowing, oil, and wine fail, while Omride policy becomes a warning rather than an ethnic stigma.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The paragraph defines 6:8 in ordinary economic and civic life and shows that exploitative prosperity is not evidence of covenant faithfulness. Within that movement, this verse begins punishment with sickness, smiting, and desolation because of sins.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“make thee sick”
In plain language: bring debilitating judgment within the oracle
begins punishment with sickness, smiting, and desolation because of sins. The oracle interprets this communal judgment, but it cannot become a universal diagnosis of illness.
Why it matters: The wording identifies this verse's distinct contribution to the complete unit.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
The oracle interprets this communal judgment, but it cannot become a universal diagnosis of illness.
How It Can Shape Life
- Reject victim-blaming and address only the specific wrongdoing supported by evidence.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 6:9-16 — The City Keeps False Measures and Harvests FutilitySources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Micah 6:9-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 6:9-16
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Micah with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Micah PDF, printed pp. 1749, translation and notes on 6:9-16
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