Micah 6:13
Good News Translation
So I have already begun your ruin and destruction because of your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.

Contemporary English Version
Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenseless.

New American Bible
I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

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Leviticus 26:16 I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:21,22 May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. . . .

Job 33:19-22 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. . . .

Psalm 107:17,18 He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices. . . .

Isaiah 1:5,6 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. . . .

Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

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Lamentations 1:13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Lamentations 3:11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

Hosea 5:9 Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.

Hosea 13:16 Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

Context
The Punishment of Israel
12By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. 13And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.14Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword.…
Cross References
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.

Isaiah 6:11
And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Micah 1:9
Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches.

Micah 6:16
For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Micah 7:13
And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants thereof, and for the fruit of their devices.

Micah 6:12
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