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But now, why are you shouting so loudly?
    Is it because you have no king among you?
    Has the one who guided you perished,
    so that pain now has gripped you like a woman giving birth?
10 Writhe and scream, Daughter of Zion,
    like a woman giving birth, since now you must leave the city,
    and you will seek shelter in the fields.
    You will go to Babylon.
    There you will be rescued.
    There the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

11 But now many nations have banded together against you.
    They say, “Let her be degraded! Let our eyes gloat over Zion!”

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