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 rescued;
(D)There the Lord will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
11 “And now (E)many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes [a]gloat over Zion.’
12 “But they do not (F)know the thoughts of the Lord,
And they do not understand His purpose;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 4:11 Lit look on

10 Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

11 But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat(C) over Zion!”
12 But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(D)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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