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13 “Therefore, I will wound you!
    I will bring you to ruin for all your sins.
14 You will eat but never have enough.
    Your hunger pangs and emptiness will remain.
And though you try to save your money,
    it will come to nothing in the end.
You will save a little,
    but I will give it to those who conquer you.
15 You will plant crops
    but not harvest them.
You will press your olives
    but not get enough oil to anoint yourselves.
You will trample the grapes
    but get no juice to make your 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