Jeremiah 26:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah, “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the temple mount will become overgrown with thickets.”'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and usalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Micah{H4320} the Morashtite{H4183} prophesied{H5012} in the days{H3117} of Hezekiah{H2396} king{H4428} of Judah;{H3063} and he spake{H559} to all the people{H5971} of Judah,{H3063} saying,{H559} Thus saith{H559} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts:{H6635} Zion{H6726} shall be plowed{H2790} as a field,{H7704} and Jerusalem{H3389} shall become heaps,{H5856} and the mountain{H2022} of the house{H1004} as the high places{H1116} of a forest.{H3293}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Micah{H4320} the Morasthite{H4183} prophesied{H5012}{(H8737)} in the days{H3117} of Hezekiah{H2396} king{H4428} of Judah{H3063}, and spake{H559}{(H8799)} to all the people{H5971} of Judah{H3063}, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}; Zion{H6726} shall be plowed{H2790}{(H8735)} like a field{H7704}, and Jerusalem{H3389} shall become heaps{H5856}, and the mountain{H2022} of the house{H1004} as the high places{H1116} of a forest{H3293}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Micheas the Morascite, which was a prophet vnder Ezechias kinge of Iuda, spake to all the people of Iuda: Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: Sion shalbe plowed like a felde, Ierusale shalbe an heape of stones, & the hill of the LORDES house shalbe turned to an hie wod.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Michah the Morashite prophecied in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, and spake to al the people of Iudah, saying, Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, Zion shall be plowed like a fielde, and Ierusalem shalbe an heape, and the mountaine of the House shalbe as the hie places of the forest.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Micheas the Morasthite, which was a prophete vnder Ezekias kyng of Iuda, spake to all the people of Iuda, thus saith the Lorde of hoastes, Sion shalbe plowed like a fielde, Hierusalem shalbe an heape of stones, and the hyll of the Lordes house shalbe turned to an hye wood.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Micah from Moresheth prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,“Zion will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 4:2 : 2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish that are burned?
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 17:3 : 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.
  • Mic 1:1 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
  • Mic 3:12-4:1 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. 1 But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow to it.
  • Zech 8:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 O God, the heathen have entered into Your inheritance; Your holy temple they have defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
  • Isa 2:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
  • 2 Kgs 19:25 : 25 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now I have brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Mic 1:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

    2 Hear, all you people; listen, O earth, and all that is within it: and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

  • 6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.

  • 17 Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

  • 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD, and implore the LORD, and the LORD relented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus we might bring great evil against ourselves.

  • 7 At that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people scattered and polished, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled under foot, whose land the rivers have ravaged, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.

  • 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

  • 1 The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people around about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

  • 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

  • 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

  • 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • 8 The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

  • 6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

  • Mic 1:4-6
    3 verses
    67%

    4 And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place.

    5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

    6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of the field, and as the plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.

  • 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall split in the midst toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

  • 15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows; for the wicked shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

  • 6 For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  • 32 As yet he shall remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

  • 4 For thus has the LORD spoken to me, Like a lion and the young lion roaring over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor humble himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

  • 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • 4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

  • 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.

  • 3 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place, which whoever hears of it, his ears shall tingle.

  • 13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

  • 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • 5 For it is a day of trouble and of trampling down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

  • 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD out of the book,

  • 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes.

  • 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

  • Zech 12:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling for all the people around about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

    3 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

  • 11 Concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD;

  • 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

  • 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

  • 14 Thus says the LORD against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

  • 9 And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.

  • 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

  • 1 For behold, in those days, and at that time, when I shall restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

  • 15 For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

  • 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

  • 1 Listen to this, O priests; and pay attention, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

  • 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be uprooted, nor demolished anymore forever.

  • 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.