A fruitful land into a salt desert,\par\tab For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Micah 3:12 - American Standard Version 2015 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 Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore shall Zion on your account be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps [of ruins], and the mountain of the house [of the Lord] like a densely wooded height. [Jer. 26:17-19.] American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become piles of rubble, and the temple mount will become an overgrown mound. Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, because of you, Zion will be plowed under like a field, and Jerusalem will become like a pile of stones, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of the forests. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore, because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple as the high places of the forests. |
A fruitful land into a salt desert,\par\tab For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
{\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.
For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, {\i and} thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a desolation.
For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, {\i and} the head of Lebanon; {\i yet} surely I will make thee a wilderness, {\i and} cities which are not inhabited.
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.
therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.\par
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.\par
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:\par\tab The foxes walk upon it.\par
Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, {\i and} as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.
But he answered and said unto them, {\cf6 See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.}\par