(A)on the mountains in the open country. (B)Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.

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13 (A)“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as (B)spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.

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18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

(A)“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
    Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
    and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

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13 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord (A)and the treasures of the king's house, (B)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, (C)which Solomon king of Israel had made, (D)as the Lord had foretold.

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He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: (A)Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

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12 Therefore because of you
    (A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
    and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.

The Mountain of the Lord

It shall come to pass (E)in the latter days
    that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
    and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Micah 4:2 Or teaching

All this is for (A)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
(B)What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not (C)Samaria?
And what is (D)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?
Therefore I will make (E)Samaria (F)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones (G)into the valley
    and (H)uncover her foundations.
All (I)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    (J)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (K)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

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39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your (A)vaulted chamber and break down (B)your lofty places. (C)They shall strip you of your clothes and take (D)your beautiful jewels and leave you (E)naked and bare.

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20 (A)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and (B)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore (C)I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of (D)foreigners for prey, (E)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and (F)they shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and (G)they shall profane my treasured[a] place. Robbers shall enter (H)and profane it.

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  1. Ezekiel 7:22 Or secret

and say, (A)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to (B)the mountains and (C)the hills, to (D)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, (E)and I will destroy your high places.

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17 For this (A)our heart has become sick,
    for these things (B)our eyes have grown dim,
18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
    (C)jackals prowl over it.

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10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (A)precious things;
for she has seen (B)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (C)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

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15 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and (A)the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

17 And the (B)pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the (C)bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and (D)carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18 And they took away (E)the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; 19 (F)also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and (G)the lampstands and (H)the dishes for incense (I)and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 20 As for the two pillars, the one sea, (J)the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea,[a] and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:20 Hebrew lacks the sea

12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.

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Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

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  1. Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin

(A)It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that (B)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and (C)all the nations shall flow to it,
    and (D)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For (E)out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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  1. Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching

13 (A)And the pillars (B)of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and (C)the stands and (D)the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. 14 (E)And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, 15 the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 16 As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, (F)the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

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30 And (A)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (B)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

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