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Therefore shall Zion for your sake - for your sake shall Zion
Be plowed as a field - They thought to be its builders; they …

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

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…

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

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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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes