Micah 4:10-12

New Century Version

¹⁰People of Jerusalem, strain and be in pain.
    Be like a woman trying to give birth,
because now you must leave the city
    and live in the field.
You will go to Babylon,
    but you will be saved from that place.
The Lord will go there
    and buy you back from your enemies.

¹¹But now many nations
    have come to fight against you,
saying, “Let’s destroy Jerusalem.
    We will look at her and be glad we have defeated her.”
¹²But they don’t know
    what the Lord is thinking;
they don’t understand his plan.
    He has gathered them like bundles of grain to the threshing floor.