Mic 3:12 | TNotes | STEP | 3:12 Mount Zion , where the Lord once lived, would become a thicket , an uninhabitable wilderness. Utter destruction awaited the fallen Jerusalem . Jeremiah later quoted this passage (Jer 26:18 ). • Just as a field needs to be cleared to prepare it for cultivation, Jerusalem had to be reduced to ruins in judgment.

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‏ Micah 3:12

3:12 ^a Mount Zion, where the Lord once lived, would become a thicket, an uninhabitable wilderness. Utter destruction awaited the fallen Jerusalem. Jeremiah later quoted this passage (Jer 26:18 ^b).

• Just as a field needs to be cleared to prepare it for cultivation, Jerusalem had to be reduced to ruins in judgment.