Micah 3:12

KJV

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.

— Micah 3:12, King James Version
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Study Note

Micah's oracle that 'Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins' is quoted verbatim in Jeremiah 26:18, where the elders cite it to defend Jeremiah against a death sentence, demonstrating that Micah's prophecy had canonical authority within a generation. The prophecy is directed against corrupt leaders — priests who teach for hire, prophets who divine for money, rulers who judge for bribes — while claiming 'the LORD is in our midst; no disaster will come upon us.' This false security — confusing ritual presence with covenantal protection — is among the most condemned attitudes in the prophetic literature. The fulfillment in 587 BCE gave the text retrospective hermeneutical weight and shaped post-exilic reflection on the relationship between justice and the divine presence.

他の翻訳

ASV

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.

YLT

Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house <FI>is<Fi> for high places of a forest!

BBE

For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

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