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13 Therefore I have also smitten you with a deadly wound and made you sick, laying you desolate, waste, and deserted because of your sins.

14 You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness and hunger shall remain in you; you shall carry away [goods and those you love] but fail to save them, and those you do deliver I will give to the sword.

15 You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and [you shall extract juice from] the grapes but not drink the wine.

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13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy(A) you,
    to ruin[a] you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(B)
    your stomach will still be empty.[b]
You will store up but save nothing,(C)
    because what you save[c] I will give to the sword.
15 You will plant but not harvest;(D)
    you will press olives but not use the oil,
    you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.(E)

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Footnotes

  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