OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 26:18

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“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

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Verse 18. Mountain. Sion, on which the house of the Lord was built. Conquerors have sometimes ploughed up cities. Calmet.—Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit. Ovid, ep. i.

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