Micah 6:14 (WEB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Micah 6:12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Micah 6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

Micah 6:14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

Micah 6:15 You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "satisfied", "humiliation", "within", "store", "save", and "give". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "satisfied", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "Therefore I also have struck you with..." into verse 15's "You will sow but won t reap...", so "shall" and "satisfied" 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 "shall" and "satisfied" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.