For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of TZiyon.
Therefore shall TZiyon for your sake be plowed as a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Mikhah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hizkiyah-yahu king of Yhudah, and spake to all the people of Yhudah, saying, Thus saith YY -TZvaot; TZiyon shall be plowed like a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
And the ransomed of YY shall return, and come to TZiyon with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Shomron, and said, What do these feeble Jews? 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 the rubbish which are burned?
Therefore the redeemed of YY shall return, and come with singing unto TZiyon; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Lvim that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.