Micah 4:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹ Jerusalem, why are you crying?
Don't you have a king?
    Have your advisors gone?
Are you suffering
    like a woman in childbirth?
¹⁰ Keep on groaning with pain,
    you people of Jerusalem!
If you escape from your city
    to the countryside,
you will still be taken
    as prisoners to Babylonia.
But later I will rescue you
    from your enemies.

¹¹ Zion, because of your sins
you are surrounded
    by many nations who say,
“We can hardly wait
    to see you disgraced.”^[a]