Verse Lens · Context pointer
Micah 6:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
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Role in This Section
This verse continues the covenant-curse reversal through sowing without harvest, oil without anointing, and wine without drinking.
Read It With
- Micah 6:9-16
Read Micah 6:15 with 6:9-16. This verse continues the covenant-curse reversal through sowing without harvest, oil without anointing, and wine without drinking. 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 It Needs Context
Read this line within Micah 6:9-16. The surrounding lines are necessary because they complete 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.
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 context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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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
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