Micah 4:6-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ And you, O tower of the flock,
    hill of daughter Zion,
to you it shall come,
    the former dominion shall come,
    the sovereignty of daughter Jerusalem.

⁹ Now why do you cry aloud?
    Is there no king in you?
Has your counsellor perished,
    that pangs have seized you like a woman in labour?
¹⁰ Writhe and groan,^[a] O daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labour;
for now you shall go forth from the city
    and camp in the open country;
    you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued,
    there the Lord will redeem you
    from the hands of your enemies.

¹¹ Now many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, ‘Let her be profaned,
    and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.’
¹² But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing-floor.
¹³ Arise and thresh,
    O daughter Zion,
for I will make your horn iron
    and your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples,
    and shall^[b] devote their gain to the Lord,
    their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.