Devine Scripture

Micah 6:15

Micah chapter 6 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

Context

v.14Thou 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.

v.15This passage

v.16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 62:8

    Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

  • Leviticus 26:20

    and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Haggai 1:6

    Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

  • Joel 1:10

    The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

  • Jeremiah 12:13

    They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

  • Deuteronomy 28:38

    Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.