Micah 3:12 → Jeremiah 26:18

Jeremiah 26:18 explicitly quotes Micah 3:12 verbatim: "Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge." This is one of the rare instances where the OT itself records the direct quotation of one named prophet by another. Jeremiah's contemporaries cite Micah's century-old prophecy to argue that prophetic threats of judgment against Jerusalem are legitimate and should not be punished -- Hezekiah responded to Micah with repentance rather than persecution. The quotation demonstrates that prophetic words retained authoritative force across generations and could function as legal precedent in subsequent judicial contexts. The Hebrew of the citation itself — צִיּוֹן שָׂדֶה תֵחָרֵשׁ (Tsiyyon sadeh techarest, "Zion will be plowed as a field") — is reproduced without alteration, underscoring how precisely Jeremiah's defenders preserved Micah's original wording.