Now why do you cry aloud?
(A)Is there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For (B)pangs have seized you like a woman in [a]labor.

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  1. Micah 4:9 childbirth

“Now, why do you (A)cry out loudly?
Is there no king among you,
Or has your (B)counselor perished,
That agony has gripped you like a woman in childbirth?

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Why do you now cry aloud—
    have you no king[a](A)?
Has your ruler[b] perished,
    that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 4:9 Or King
  2. Micah 4:9 Or Ruler