<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn Samaria<n id="1" /> into a heap of ruins in an open field &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">vineyards will be planted there!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will tumble<n id="3" /> the rubble of her stone walls<n id="4" /> down into the valley,p> <p class="poetry">and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, because of you,<n id="1" /> Zion will be plowed up like<n id="2" /> a field,p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,p> <p class="poetry">and the Temple Mount<n id="3" /> will become a hill overgrown with brush!<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of Asaph.p> <p class="poetry">O God, foreigners<n id="2" /> have invaded your chosen land;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they have polluted your holy templep> <p class="poetry">and turned Jerusalem<n id="4" /> into a heap of ruins.p>

&#8220;Micah from Moresheth<n id="1" /> prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah.<n id="2" /> He told all the people of Judah,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="3" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Zion<n id="4" /> will become a plowed field.p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="5" /> will become a pile of rubble.p> <p class="poetry">The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.&#8221;&#8217;<n id="6" />p>