New English Translation
Micah 3:12
12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
Micah 3:12 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.
Context of Micah 3:12
10You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence. 11Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say, “The Lord is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!” Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!
Read all of Micah 3Micah 3:12 word by word
לָכֵן֙ בִּגְלַלְכֶ֔ם צִיּ֖וֹן שָׂדֶ֣ה תֵֽחָרֵ֑שׁ וִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ עִיִּ֣ין תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וְהַ֥ר הַבַּ֖יִת לְבָמ֥וֹת יָֽעַר׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Therefore shall Zionצִיּוֹןtsîyôn · ZionH6726
- for your sakeגָּלָלgâlâl · because ofH1558
- be plowedחָרַשׁchârash · to plow/plotH2790
- a fieldשָׂדֶהώâdeh ώâday · land: countryH7704
- and Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
- shall become heapsעִי‛îy · ruinH5856
- and the mountainהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
- of the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
- as the high placesבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
- of the forestיַ֫עַרya‛ar · woodH3293
Cross-references for Micah 3:12
- Micah 1:6“I will turn Samaria into a heap of ruins in an open field – vineyards will be planted there! I will tumble the rubble of her stone walls down into the valley, and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.
- Psalms 79:1O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
- Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
- Jeremiah 26:18“Micah from Moresheth prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Zion will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’
- Matthew 24:2And he said to them, “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
- Acts 6:13They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.
- Micah 4:1In the future the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; it will be more prominent than other hills. People will stream to it.
- Isaiah 2:2In the future the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,
Commentaries on Micah 3:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Therefore shall Zion - be ploughed as a field - It shall undergo a variety of reverses and sackages, till at last there shall not be one stone left on the top of another, that shall not be pulled down; and then a plough shall be drawn along the site of the walls, to signify an irreparable and endless destruction. Of this ancient custom Horace speaks, Odar. lib. i., Od. 16, ver. 18. Altis urbibus ultimae Stetere causae cur perirent Funditus, imprimeretque…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore shall Zion for your sake - for your sake shall Zion Be plowed as a field - They thought to be its builders; they were its destroyers. They imagined to advance or secure its temporal prosperity by bloods; they (as men ever do first or last,) ruined it. Zion might have stood, but for these its acute, far-sighted politicians, who scorned the warnings of the prophets, as well-meant ignorance of the world or of the necessities of the state. They…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-12Verses 9-12 Zion's walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God. Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for filthy lucre, it becomes abomination both to God and man. Faith rests in the Lord as the soul's foundation: presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop, and would use him to serve a turn. If men's having the Lord among them will not keep them from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Mount Zion, where the Lord once lived, would become a dense forest and an uninhabitable wilderness. Complete destruction awaited the fallen Jerusalem. Jeremiah later quoted this passage (Jeremiah 26:18) Just as a field needs clearing for cultivation, Jerusalem had to be reduced to ruins as a form of judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Jr 26:18 quotes this verse. The Talmud and Maimonides record that at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus, Terentius Rufus, who was left in command of the army, with a ploughshare tore up the foundations of the temple. mountain of the house--the height on which the temple stands. as the high places of the forest--shall become as heights in a forest overrun with wild shrubs and brushwood.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Micah 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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