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12 Your rich men are wealthy through extortion and violence; your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can’t tell the truth!

13 “Therefore I will wound you! I will make your hearts miserable for all your sins. 14 You will eat but never have enough; hunger pangs and emptiness will still remain. And though you try and try to save your money, it will come to nothing at the end, and what little you succeed in storing up I’ll give to those who conquer you![a]

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  1. Micah 6:14 See Haggai 1:6.

12 Your rich people are violent;(A)
    your inhabitants are liars(B)
    and their tongues speak deceitfully.(C)
13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy(D) you,
    to ruin[a] you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(E)
    your stomach will still be empty.[b]
You will store up but save nothing,(F)
    because what you save[c] I will give to the sword.

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  1. Micah 6:13 Or Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin
  2. Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth