Micah 6:14
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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.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
You will eat but never have enough. Your hunger pangs and emptiness will remain. And though you try to save your money, it will come to nothing in the end. You will save a little, but I will give it to those who conquer you.
What does Micah 6:14 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Micah 6:14
deliverest will I give up to the sword;
the sense is, that they should take hold of their wives and children, and endeavour to save them from the sword of the enemy, and being carried captive: or should "remove" them F16, as the word is sometimes used, in order to secure them from them; or should "overtake" F17; the enemy, carrying them captive; but should not be able by either of these methods to save them from being destroyed, or carried away by them; and even such as they should preserve or rescue for a while, yet these should be given up to the sword of the enemy, the same or another. Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret this of their women conceiving, and not bringing forth; and, if they should, yet what they brought forth should be slain by the sword F18. But the Targum and Jarchi incline to the former sense.
FOOTNOTES:
F16 (gotw) "et amovebis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius; "summovebis", Drusius, so Ben Melech; "et removebis", Burkius.
F17 "Assequeris", Syr.
F18 R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 35. 2.
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied
Either not having enough to eat, for the refreshing and
satisfying of nature; or else a blessing being withheld from
food, though eaten, and so not nourishing; or a voracious and
insatiable appetite being given as a curse; the first sense seems
best: and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of
thee;
meaning they should be humbled and brought down, either by civil
discords and wars among themselves, or through the enemy being
suffered to come into the midst of their country, and make havoc
there; which would be as a sickness and disease in their bowels.
So the Targum,
``thou shalt have an illness in thy bowels.''The Syriac version is,
``a dysentery shall be in thine intestines;''a secret judgment wasting and destroying them; and thou shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and [that] which thou
deliverest will I give up to the sword;
the sense is, that they should take hold of their wives and children, and endeavour to save them from the sword of the enemy, and being carried captive: or should "remove" them F16, as the word is sometimes used, in order to secure them from them; or should "overtake" F17; the enemy, carrying them captive; but should not be able by either of these methods to save them from being destroyed, or carried away by them; and even such as they should preserve or rescue for a while, yet these should be given up to the sword of the enemy, the same or another. Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret this of their women conceiving, and not bringing forth; and, if they should, yet what they brought forth should be slain by the sword F18. But the Targum and Jarchi incline to the former sense.
F16 (gotw) "et amovebis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius; "summovebis", Drusius, so Ben Melech; "et removebis", Burkius.
F17 "Assequeris", Syr.
F18 R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 35. 2.
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