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Micah 6:14

You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

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ASV

Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

KJV

Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַתָּ֤ה'a.TahyouH859 →
תֹאכַל֙to.Khalyou will eatH398 →
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תִשְׂבָּ֔עtis.Ba'you will be satisfiedH7646 →
וְיֶשְׁחֲךָ֖ve.yesh.cha.Khaand emptiness yourH3445 →
בְּקִרְבֶּ֑ךָbe.kir.Be.cha[will be] in midst yourH7130 →
וְתַסֵּג֙ve.ta.Segand you will carry awayH5253 →
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תַפְלִ֔יטtaf.Lityou will bring to safetyH6403 →
וַאֲשֶׁ֥רva.'a.Sherand [that] whichH834 →
תְּפַלֵּ֖טte.fa.Letyou will bring to safetyH6403 →
לַחֶ֥רֶבla.Che.revto the swordH2719 →
אֶתֵּֽן׃'e.TenI will giveH5414 →

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Hosea 4:10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.Isaiah 65:13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.Amos 2:14–16Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.Jeremiah 48:44“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.Ezekiel 4:16–17Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.Haggai 2:16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.Isaiah 30:6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.Deuteronomy 32:22–25For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.Isaiah 3:6–8A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”Isaiah 24:17–20Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.Amos 4:8People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.Joel 2:26You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.Micah 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

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About Micah

Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Micah Exhorts the Israelites to Repent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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