Micah 7:13
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֶפֶס
ʼepheç
cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or fo...
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
שָׁמֵם
shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
שָׁם
shâm
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
פְּרִי
pᵉrîy
fruit (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
אֶפֶס ʼepheç
cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot
Study H657 →שָׁמֵם shâmêm
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
Study H8074 →יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
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.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
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