Micah 6:13
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
Cross-references
Isaiah 1:5 describes a whole head sick and heart faint from continued rebellion — reinforcing the theme of sin-induced sickness.
Acts 12:23 records God smiting Herod with worms and death for pride — a NT example of direct divine judgment via sickness.
Hosea 13:16 declares Samaria desolate for rebellion — echoes Micah's 'make thee desolate' as divine punishment.
In Hosea 5:9, Ephraim is also made desolate in the day of rebuke — same judgment for sin.
Psalm 107:17 directly states that affliction comes because of transgression — the same causal link between sin and sickness.
Deuteronomy 28:22 lists covenant curses of consumption and fever — the specific judgment language Micah echoes here.
Deuteronomy 28:22 expands the covenant curse with consumption, fever, and inflammation—echoing the sickness here.
Leviticus 26:16 lists covenant curses of consumption and fever—the same sickness God threatens here.
Jeremiah 14:17 laments God's people 'broken with a great breach' — strong parallel to Micah's smiting and desolation.
Isaiah 1:6 pictures the body covered in unhealed wounds and bruises — a vivid parallel to the desolation Micah mentions.
Job 33:19-22 describes divine discipline through pain and illness, showing a similar pattern of sickness as correction.
Psalm 107:18 adds the specific symptom of loathing food and nearing death, illustrating the severity of the affliction.
Jeremiah 14:18 shows sick with famine as a result of judgment — another instance of God striking through illness.
Lamentations 1:13 uses fire sent into bones as an image of God's judgment — similar to the smiting and desolation here.
Lamentations 5:17 describes the people's faint heart and dim eyes after destruction — an effect of the judgment Micah pronounces.
Job 16:7 says God made him weary and desolate — a personal parallel to Micah's national desolation from God.
Exodus 9:14 has God sending plagues on Egypt — a parallel divine judgment through affliction, though on a different people.