Micah 7:13 KJV — MannaFest

Micah 7:13

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

KJV

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ASV

Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

WEB

Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

YLT

And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

DBT

But the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

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Micah — A prophet of rural Moresheth — contemporary of Isaiah — preaching judgment on Jerusalem and Samaria. Bethlehem named as Messiah's birthplace. And the Bible's clearest summary of what the LORD requires.

Author: Micah the Morasthite (1:1) — from Moresheth-Gath in the Judean lowlands
Date: c. 740–700 BC, during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

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27 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Isaiah 3:10–11
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Zephaniah 1:2
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Ezekiel 12:19
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

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For this they must expect to smart a great while; for the world shall know that God hates sin even in his own people. When it does come it shall be a complete salvation; and it seems to refer to their deliverance out of Babylon by Cyrus, which Isaiah about this time prophesied of, as a type of our redemption by Christ.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

God's promise, in answer to this prayer; and we may well take God's promises as real answers to the prayers of faith, and embrace them accordingly, for with him saying and doing are not two things.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

However glorious the prospect of restoration, the Jews are not to forget the visitation on their "land" which is to intervene for the "fruit of (evil caused by) their doings" (compare Pr 1:31;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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