¹⁰ When I please, I will punish^(A) them;
    nations will be gathered against them
    to put them in bonds for their double sin.

⁹ And it will be: Like people, like priests.^(A)
    I will punish both of them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.^(B)

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;^(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem^(B) 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^(C) over Zion!”
¹² But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,^(D)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³ “Rise and thresh,^(E) 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.”^(F)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,^(G)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

¹⁰ Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
    I will now gather them together.^(A)
They will begin to waste away^(B)
    under the oppression of the mighty king.