Micah 4:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

¹¹ Now many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be profaned,
    and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”