Micah 4:9-11

New International Version - UK

⁹ Why do you now cry aloud –
    have you no king?^[a]
Has your ruler^[b] perished,
    that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labour?
¹⁰ Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labour,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem 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 over Zion!’