Micah 3:12 (WEB)
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Fathers and councils · 3
Cyril of Jerusalem
“The house of Caiaphas will arraign thee, shewing by its present desolation the power of Him who was erewhile judged there.” — editor's note: The house of Caiaphas and Pilate’s Prætorium (§ 41), and Mount Zion itself (Cat. xvi. 18), on which they both stood are described by Cyril as being in his time…
Read the whole comment“The city was still standing, and beautified with public places, and robed in majesty; yet he says, Zion shall be ploughed as a field, foretelling what is now fulfilled in our days.” — editor's note: Micah iii. 12; ascribed by Cyril to Isaiah.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem be as a lodge in a garden, and the mountain of the house be reckoned as a glade in a thicket.” — editor's note: Mic. iii. 10–12.
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Cross-references · 1
Jeremiah 26:18 and Micah 3:12 share the same wording (18 words).