Commentary The contrast between this view of Zion and the Jerusalem to be “plowed like a field” has seemed to some to amount to a contradiction. In Wellhausen’s unlovely phrase it is a poultice stuck on the wound left by chapter three. But whatever view one takes of the relation of this vision to the rest of the book, all will agree that it has been placed strategically, for (to cite only the most obvious) it continues the topic of Jerusalem from chap. 3 and leads into the Zion prophecies of chap.