Micah 4:8-13

New International Version

⁸ As for you, watchtower of the flock,
    stronghold^[a] of Daughter Zion,
the former dominion will be restored^(A) to you;
    kingship will come to Daughter Jerusalem.^(B)”

⁹ Why do you now cry aloud—
    have you no king^[b](C)?
Has your ruler^[c] perished,
    that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?^(D)
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;^(E)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem^(F) 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^(G) over Zion!”
¹² But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,^(H)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³ “Rise and thresh,^(I) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”^(J)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,^(K)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.