Micah 7:13 (WEB)

Passage

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Nearby Context

Micah 7:11 A day to build your walls— In that day, he will extend your boundary.

Micah 7:12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.

Micah 7:13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

Micah 7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Micah 7:15 “As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "land", "desolate", "dwell", "therein", "fruit", and "doings". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "land" and "desolate", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "In that day they will come to..." into verse 14's "Shepherd your people with your staff the...", so "land" and "desolate" 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 "land" and "desolate" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.