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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.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Therefore shall Zion for your sake - for your sake shall Zion

Be plowed as a field - They thought to be its builders; they …

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Therefore shall Zion ...—Micah declared this sentence of Divine judgment with an intrepidity that was long remembered by the Jews.…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

The Prophet shows here first, how gro and supine was the hypocrisy of princes as well as of the priests and prophets; and then he declares that the…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, &c.] That is, for your sins, as the Targum; for the bloodshed, injusti…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Zion's walls owe no thanks to those who build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man does not work the righteousness of God. Even when men…

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