Micah 6:13

“Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, etc.] With the rod to be heard, (<330609>Micah 6:9); by sending among them some of his sore judgments, as famine, pestilence, the sword of the enemy, internal wars, and the like; which should cause their kingdom, and state, and families, to decline and waste away, as a sickly and diseased body. So the Targum, “and I brought upon thee illness and a stroke.” The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, “and I began to smite thee”; as by Hazael, king of Syria, and Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, who had carried part of them captive; in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins; went on, not only to make them sick,…”

“make thee sick in smiting-- (Lev 26:16, to which perhaps the allusion here is, as in Mic 6:14; Psa 107:17-18; Jer 13:13).”

“Therefore also will I - (Literally, And I too,) that is, this dost thou, and thus will I too do. Pococke: “As thou madest sick the heart of the poor oppressed, so will I, by My grievous and severe punishments, make thee sick,” or make thy wound incurable, as in Nahum, “thy wound is grievous,” (Nahum 3:19 literally, made sick. In making thee desolate because of thy sins. The heaping up riches shall itself be the cause of thy being waste, deserted, desolate. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Sick - God will e're long so smite, that the strokes shall reach the heart, and make Israel heartsick of his wounds. Micah 6:14”

“6:13-16 I will wound you! This phrase introduces all of the curses that God had promised to bring upon the disobedient and rebellious people of Israel (see Deut 28:15-68).”

“I make: Lev 26:16; Deu 28:21, Deu 28:22; Job 33:19-22; Psa 107:17, Psa 107:18; Isa 1:5, Isa 1:6; Jer 14:18; Act 12:23 in: Lam 1:13, Lam 3:11; Hos 5:9, Hos 13:16 Micah 6:14”

“The threat of punishment follows in Mic 6:13-16. Mic 6:13. "So also now do I smite thee incurably, laying waste because of thy sins. Mic 6:14. Thou wilt eat, and not be satisfied; and thine emptiness remains in thee; and thou wilt remove, and not save; and what thou savest I will give to the sword. Mic 6:15. Thou wilt sow, and not reap; thou wilt tread olives, and not anoint thyself with oil; new wine, and not drink wine." With וגם־אני the threatened punishment is represented as the consequence of, or retribution for, the sins of the people. החליתי הך: literally, I have made the smiting thee sick, i.e., smitten thee with incurable sickness (for hechelaah, see at Nah 3:19 and Jer 30:12; and…”