Holy Scripture

Micah 4:10

A church father on this verse
“"Writhe and groan, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go forth from the city and camp in the open country; you shall go to Babylon, and there you shall be rescued." The meaning is that you will go into captivity, people of Zion, to be deported to Babylon, but after years you will come back from…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON MICAH

Source: Septuagint

Original

10Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and draw near, O daughter of Zion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

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8And thou, dark tower of the flock, daughter of Zion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.

9And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

— Micah 4:10 —

11And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.

12But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.

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