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Jeremiah Spared From Death

16 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “This man is not worthy of death. For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

17 Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying: 18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says 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.’

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