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10 (A)Writhe and labor to give birth,
Daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in childbirth;
For now you will (B)go out of the city,
Dwell in the field,
And go to Babylon.
(C)There you will be delivered;
(D)There Yahweh will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
11 But now (E)many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes behold Zion in triumph.’
12 But they do not (F)know the thoughts of Yahweh,
And they do not understand His counsel;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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