Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

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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

19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

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19 Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:(A)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King(B) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused(C) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless(D) foreign idols?”(E)

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10 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

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10 Where is your king,(A) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?(B)
11 So in my anger I gave you a king,(C)
    and in my wrath I took him away.(D)

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For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

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Then they will say, “We have no king
    because we did not revere the Lord.
But even if we had a king,
    what could he do for us?”

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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

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For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince,(A) without sacrifice(B) or sacred stones,(C) without ephod(D) or household gods.(E)

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20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

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20 The Lord’s anointed,(A) our very life breath,
    was caught in their traps.(B)
We thought that under his shadow(C)
    we would live among the nations.

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43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

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43 The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,
    and his hands hang limp.(A)
Anguish has gripped him,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(B)

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Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

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Ask and see:
    Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
    with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,(A)
    every face turned deathly pale?(B)
How awful that day(C) will be!
    No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble(D) for Jacob,
    but he will be saved(E) out of it.

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23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

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23 You who live in ‘Lebanon,[a](A)
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain(B) like that of a woman in labor!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)

21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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21 How long must I see the battle standard(A)
    and hear the sound of the trumpet?(B)

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17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

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17 As a pregnant woman about to give birth(A)
    writhes and cries out in her pain,
    so were we in your presence, Lord.

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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

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At this my body is racked with pain,(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered(C) by what I see.

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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

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Terror(A) will seize them,
    pain and anguish will grip(B) them;
    they will writhe like a woman in labor.(C)
They will look aghast at each other,
    their faces aflame.(D)

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