Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, 1 Zion will become a plowed field, 1 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, 1 and the hill of the temple will become a thicket.

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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

In Context

11Your leaders judge for a bribe, 1 your priests teach for a price, 1 and your prophets do divination for money. 1 Yet you rely on Yahweh and say, 1 “Is not Yahweh with us? 1 No evil will come on us.” 1

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Cross References

Psalms 79:1God, foreign nations have come into your inheritance; 1 they have defiled your holy temple; 1 they have turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins. 1

Isaiah 2:2It will be in the last days 1 that the mountain of Yahweh's house 1 will be established as the highest of the mountains, 1 and it will be raised up above the hills, 1 and all the nations will flow to it. 1

Jeremiah 9:10I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. 1 For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. 1 The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away. 1

Jeremiah 26:18They said, “Micah the Morashite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He spoke to all the people of Judah and said, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Zion will become a plowed field, 1 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, 1 and the hill of the temple will become a thicket.'

Micah 4:1But in the last days it will come about 1 that the mountain of Yahweh's house 1 will be established over the other mountains. 1 It will be exalted above the hills, 1 and peoples will stream to it. 1

Acts 6:13They brought false witnesses, who said, “This man does not stop speaking words against this holy place and the law.

Matthew Henry on Micah 3:9-12

The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. ( b. c. 726.) 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord , and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine… Read the whole commentary →

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