Micah 6:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י הֶחֱלֵ֣יתִי הַכּוֹתֶ֑ךָ הַשְׁמֵ֖ם עַל־חַטֹּאתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

wə-gam-ʾănî heḥĕlêtî hakkôtekā hašmēm ʿal-ḥaṭṭōʾtekā

Grammar Details

• *wə-gam*: conjunction + particle - and also
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *heḥĕlêtî*: hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - I have made sick
• *hakkôtekā*: hiphil infinitive construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to strike you
• *hašmēm*: hiphil infinitive absolute - making desolate
• *ʿal*: preposition - on account of
• *ḥaṭṭōʾtekā*: noun, feminine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sins

Word Meanings

• *heḥĕlêtî*: made sick/wounded/begun
• *hakkôtekā*: to strike/smite/afflict you
• *hašmēm*: making desolate/laying waste/destroying
• *ḥaṭṭōʾtekā*: your sins/offenses/misdeeds

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• Deut 28:21-22 : 21 Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. 22 Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
• Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
• Ps 107:17-18 : 17 Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.
• Isa 1:5-7 : 5 Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. 7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isa 6:11 : 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
• Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
• Lam 1:13 : 13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
• Lam 3:11 : 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
• Hos 5:9 : 9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
• Hos 13:16 : 16 Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
• Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because {G3739} he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.