Micah 3:12

Frightful judgment against Jerusalem -- Micah 3:12: The evils of these people had brought things to such a point that both Jerusalem and the Temple would be destroyed. "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." (Micah 3:12) God told those evil leaders, "because of you, Jerusalem will be plowed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the temple now stands."

These are the words quoted in Jeremiah 26:18 "Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest." In those days the people repented and changed their lives, and so the execution of this threat was prevented, and did not come at that time. It is the wickedness of those that preside in the nations that bring them to ruin.