You will eat, but you will not be satisfied, And your vileness will be in your midst. And you will try to remove something for safekeeping, But you will not cause anything to escape, And that which you do have escape, I will give to the sword.
Micah 6:12 For the rich men of the city are full of violence, And her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Micah 6:13 So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.
Micah 6:14 You will eat, but you will not be satisfied, And your vileness will be in your midst. And you will try to remove something for safekeeping, But you will not cause anything to escape, And that which you do have escape, I will give to the sword.
Micah 6:15 You will sow but you will not reap. You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil; And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.
Micah 6:16 The statutes of Omri And all the works of the house of Ahab are kept; And in their counsels you walk. Therefore I will give you up as an object of horror And your inhabitants as an object of hissing, And you will bear the reproach of My people.”
The verse centers on "satisfied", "vileness", "midst", "remove", "something", "safekeeping", "cause", and "anything". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "satisfied" and "vileness", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 13's "So also I will make you sick..." into verse 15's "You will sow but you will not...", so "satisfied" and "vileness" belong inside that flow. In Micah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "satisfied" and "vileness" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.