Micah 4:9-13 - From Exile To Victory

⁹ Why then art thou now so heavy? Is there no king in thee? Are thy counselors away that thou art so pained, as a woman in her travail? ¹⁰ And now, O thou daughter Zion, be sorry: let it grieve thee as a wife labouring with child. For now must thou get thee out of the city, and dwell upon the plain field: Yea, unto Babylon shalt thou go, there shalt thou be delivered, and there the LORD shall loose thee from the hand of thine enemies. ¹¹ Now also are there many people gathered together against thee, saying that Zion is cursed: "We shall see our lust upon her." ¹² But they know not the thoughts of the LORD; they understand not his counsel, that shall gather them together as the sheaves in the barn. ¹³ Therefore get thee up, O thou daughter Zion, and thresh out the corn. For I will make thy horn iron. and thy claws brass, that thou mayest grind many people: their goods shalt thou appropriate unto the LORD, and their substance unto the ruler of the whole world.