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17 Some of the elders of the land got up and told all the assembled people, 18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied during the reign[a] of Hezekiah king of Judah to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says:

“Zion will be a plowed field,
    and Jerusalem a ruin.
        The Temple Mount will be a wooded hill.”’[b]

19 “Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone in Judah kill him? Didn’t he fear the Lord and seek the Lord’s favor, and so the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he had spoken to them about. We’re bringing great disaster on ourselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. time
  2. Jeremiah 26:18 Or a wooded high place