KJV ORIGINAL
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Because of what you've done, Zion is going to be torn up like farmland getting plowed. Jerusalem will be nothing but piles of rubble, and the temple mountain will be so overgrown with trees it'll look like any other hilltop in the forest.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
When leaders fail their people, even the holiest places can fall to pieces.
📜 Historical Context — Why was this verse written?
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