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Micah 6:13
And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.
Micah 6:13 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Micah 6:13 in other translations
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.
Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
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In context
10 As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.
11 Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?
12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
13 And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.
14 Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword.
15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine.
16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.
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