3:12 Therefore, because of you, 1 Zion will be plowed up like 2 a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
and the Temple Mount 3 will become a hill overgrown with brush! 4
3:2 yet you 5 hate what is good, 6
and love what is evil. 7
You flay my people’s skin 8
and rip the flesh from their bones. 9
1:1 This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to 10 Micah of Moresheth. He delivered this message 11 during the reigns of 12 Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The prophecies pertain to 13 Samaria 14 and Jerusalem. 15
25:2 Indeed, 16 you have made the city 17 into a heap of rubble,
the fortified town into a heap of ruins;
the fortress of foreigners 18 is no longer a city,
it will never be rebuilt.
25:12 The fortified city (along with the very tops of your 19 walls) 20 he will knock down,
he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground. 21
9:11 The Lord said, 22
“I will make Jerusalem 23 a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there. 24
I will destroy the towns of Judah
so that no one will be able to live in them.”
51:37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there. 25
It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,
a place where no one lives. 26
13:16 (14:1) 27 Samaria will be held guilty, 28
because she rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
their infants will be dashed to the ground –
their 29 pregnant women will be ripped open.
1 tn The plural pronoun refers to the leaders, priests, and prophets mentioned in the preceding verse.
2 tn Or “into” (an adverbial accusative of result).
3 tn Heb “the mountain of the house” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).
4 tn Heb “a high place of overgrowth.”
5 tn Heb “the ones who.”
6 tn Or “good.”
7 tn Or “evil.”
8 tn Heb “their skin from upon them.” The referent of the pronoun (“my people,” referring to Jacob and/or the house of Israel, with the
9 tn Heb “and their flesh from their bones.”
10 tn Heb “The word of the
11 tn The words “he delivered this message” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.
12 tn Heb “in the days of” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
13 tn Heb “which he saw concerning.”
14 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
15 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
16 tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
17 tn The Hebrew text has “you have made from the city.” The prefixed mem (מ) on עִיר (’ir, “city”) was probably originally an enclitic mem suffixed to the preceding verb. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:456, n. 3.
18 tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).
19 sn Moab is addressed.
20 tn Heb “a fortification, the high point of your walls.”
21 tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”
22 tn The words “the
23 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
24 tn Heb “a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals.”
25 tn Heb “a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals.” Compare 9:11.
26 tn Heb “without an inhabitant.”
27 sn Beginning with 13:16, the verse numbers through 14:9 in the English Bible differ by one from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 13:16 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:1 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:9 ET = 14:10 HT. Thus ch. 14 in the Hebrew Bible has 10 verses.
28 tn Or “must bear its guilt” (NIV similar); NLT “must bear the consequences of their guilt”; CEV “will be punished.”
29 tn Heb “his.” This is a collective singular, as recognized by almost all English versions.