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10 People of Zion, groan with pain.
    Cry out like a woman having a baby.
Soon you must leave your city.
    You must camp in the open fields.
You will have to go to the land of Babylon.
    But that’s where the Lord will save you.
There he will set you free
    from the power of your enemies.

11 But now many nations
    have gathered together to attack you.
They say, “Let Jerusalem be made ‘unclean.’
    We want to laugh when Zion suffers!”
12 But those nations don’t know
    what the Lord has in mind.
They don’t understand his plan.
    He has planned to gather them up like bundles of grain.
    He has planned to take them to his threshing floor.

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