For there they that led us captive required of us songs,\par\tab And they that wasted us {\i required of us} mirth, {\i saying},\par\tab Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
{\cf6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.}
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 a forest.\par
Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.\par
{\b A Psalm of Asaph.}\par\par\tab O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance;\par\tab Thy holy temple have they defiled;\par\tab They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song of David.}\par\par\tab Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion;\par\tab And unto thee shall the vow be performed.
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; {\i and} sorrow and sighing shall flee away.\par
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: and David had upon him an ephod of linen.