Micah 4:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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.’