⁹ You people in Jerusalem,
you are crying aloud like people who have no king.
You cry like people who have no wise leader.^[a]
You have bad pains like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
¹⁰ People in Zion, you will have a lot of pain,
like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.
She rolls about and she screams with pain.
Soon you will have to leave your city and you will have to live in the fields.
You will have to go to Babylon,
but there the Lord will save you.
He will make you free again from the authority of your enemies.
¹¹ But now, at this time, many countries have come together to attack your city.
They say: ‘We will destroy Jerusalem and we will enjoy ourselves.
We want to see Zion's people in trouble.’