Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you,
What it says
Because of this corruption, Zion will be plowed like a field and Jerusalem reduced to ruins.
What it is doing
This verse delivers the chapter's climactic judgment against the holy city itself.
In context
1Then I said: 2You hate good and love evil. 3You eat the flesh of my people 4Then they will cry out to the LORD, 5This is what the LORD says: 6Therefore night will come over you without visions, 7Then the seers will be ashamed 8As for me, however, I am filled with power 9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob 10who build Zion with bloodshed 11Her leaders judge for a bribe, 12Therefore, because of you,