Cross References

- Advertisements -




Micah 3:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.

See the chapter Copy

18 Cross References  

‘Micah the Moreshite  prophesied in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah  and said to all the people of Judah, “This is what the Lord of Armies says: Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.”


He replied to them, ‘Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down.’


Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins  in the countryside, a planting area  for a vineyard. I will roll her stones  into the valley and expose her foundations.


I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.


my mountains in the countryside. I will give up your wealth and all your treasures as plunder because of the sin of your high places in all your borders.


For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead  to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.


Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring on Judah and on all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they did not answer.” ’


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them


He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.


because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.


For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,


I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled #– #they have gone away.


But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by myself   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #that this house will become a ruin.” ’





Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements