Micah 6:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:9-16

God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic. 6:9. God speaks to the city, to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servants the prophets who were to cry aloud and not spare. Note, The voice of the prophets is the Lord's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee ,.... With the rod to be heard, Micah 6:9 ; by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the Targum, "and I brought upon thee illness and a stroke.' The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and I began to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

Will I make thee sick in smiting thee - Perhaps better, "I also am weary with smiting thee, in making thee desolate for thy sins." They were corrected, but to no purpose; they had stroke upon stroke, but were not amended. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

Verse 13 God, after having declared that he would be the Judge of the people, speaks now more clearly of their punishment. He says therefore that he was armed with vengeance: for it often happens, when a judge, even one who hates wickedness, is not able to punish, for he dreads the fierceness of those whom he thinks himself unequal to restrain. Hence God intimates here, that there will not be wanting to him a power to punish the people, I will afflict thee, he says, by striking or woundingthee;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:9-15

Divine chastisement. I. A SOLEMN DECLARATION OF COMING CHASTISEMENT . ( Micah 6:13-15 .) The form this chastisement would assume is suggestive of the thought of utter disappointment. Their gain should be turned into loss; their expectations should be completely frustrated; all that they hoped to realize as the result of their deceptions and extortions should fail them, even as the brook fails the parched traveller when coming to it to slake his burning thirst, lo! he finds... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:10-15

Civic sins. "Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? For the rich men thereof are full of violence," etc. In these verses we have specified a sample of the crimes which abounded in the city, and which would bring on the threatened judgment. The passage leads us to make two remarks concerning civic sins, or the sins of a city. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:13

Will I make thee sick in smiting thee; literally, have made the smiting thee sick; i.e. incurable, as Nahum 3:19 , or, "have made the blows mortal that are given thee." The perfect is used to express the certainty of the future. The Septuagint and Vulgate read, "I have begun [or, will begin] to smite thee." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:13-16

§ 4. For all this God threatens punishment. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 6:13

Therefore also will I - (Literally, And I too,) that is, this dost thou, and thus will I too do. Pococke: “As thou madest sick the heart of the poor oppressed, so will I, by My grievous and severe punishments, make thee sick,” or make thy wound incurable, as in Nahum, “thy wound is grievous,” (Nahum 3:19 literally, made sick. In making thee desolate because of thy sins. The heaping up riches shall itself be the cause of thy being waste, deserted, desolate. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 6:13-15

Micah 6:13-15. Therefore will I make thee sick in smiting thee Therefore, upon account of these thy sins, I will, ere long, so smite thee, O Israel, that the strokes shall reach thy heart, and make thee sick unto death of thy wounds. Or, the punishment wherewith I will afflict thee shall waste thy strength like a consuming sickness which preys upon the vitals. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied See note on Hosea 4:10. And thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee Thou shalt be... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 6:9-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 6:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 6:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:9-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:10-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 6:13-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 6:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 6:13-15

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