Micah 6:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֤ה תֹאכַל֙ וְלֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּ֔ע וְיֶשְׁחֲךָ֖ בְּקִרְבֶּ֑ךָ וְתַסֵּג֙ וְלֹ֣א תַפְלִ֔יט וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּפַלֵּ֖ט לַחֶ֥רֶב אֶתֵּֽן׃

Transliteration

ʾattāh tōʾkal wə-lōʾ tiśbāʿ wə-yešḥăkā bə-qirbekā wə-tassēg wə-lōʾ taplîṭ wa-ʾăšer təpallēṭ la-ḥereb ʾettēn

Grammar Details

• *ʾattāh*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - you
• *tōʾkal*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will eat
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *tiśbāʿ*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will be satisfied
• *wə-yešḥăkā*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your emptiness
• *bə-qirbekā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - in your midst
• *wə-tassēg*: conjunction + hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - and you will remove/save
• *taplîṭ*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will deliver/rescue
• *wa-ʾăšer*: conjunction + relative pronoun - and that which
• *təpallēṭ*: piel imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you rescue
• *la-ḥereb*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to the sword
• *ʾettēn*: qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will give

Word Meanings

• *yešḥăkā*: your emptiness/your hunger/your hollow feeling
• *tassēg*: remove/save/put away/deliver
• *taplîṭ*: deliver/rescue/bring to safety
• *təpallēṭ*: rescue/deliver/bring to safety

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thou shalt eat,{H398} but not be satisfied;{H7646} and thy humiliation{H3445} shall be in the midst{H7130} of thee: and thou shalt put away,{H5253} but shalt not save;{H6403} and that which thou savest{H6403} will I give up{H5414} to the sword.{H2719}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thou shalt eat{H398}{(H8799)}, but not be satisfied{H7646}{(H8799)}; and thy casting down{H3445} shall be in the midst{H7130} of thee; and thou shalt take hold{H5253}{(H8686)}, but shalt not deliver{H6403}{(H8686)}; and that which thou deliverest{H6403}{(H8762)} will I give up{H5414}{(H8799)} to the sword{H2719}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou shalt eate, & not haue ynough: yee thou shalt bringe thy self downe. Thou shalt fle, but not escape: ad those yt thou woldest saue, wil I delyuer to the swerde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou shalt eate, and not haue inough: yea, thou shalt bring thy selfe downe in the middes of thee, thou shalt flee, but not escape, and those that thou wouldest saue, wyll I deliuer to the sworde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; And that which you save I will give up to the sword.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thou -- thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit `is' in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

Referenced Verses

• Hos 4:10 : 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Deut 32:22-25 : 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap disasters upon them; I will use up my arrows against them. 24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.
• Isa 3:6-8 : 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: 7 In that day he shall swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; do not make me a ruler of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.
• Isa 9:20 : 20 And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.
• Isa 24:17-20 : 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare, for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
• Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
• Isa 65:13 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;
• Jer 48:44 : 44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
• Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.
• Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
• Amos 2:14-16 : 14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself: 15 Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself: neither shall he who rides the horse save himself. 16 And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.
• Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
• Hag 1:6 : 6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
• Hag 2:16 : 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.