Mic 4:10 | NETfull | STEP | Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver you from the power of your enemies.

Micah 4:10

10 Twist and strain, ^{▼▼ Or perhaps “scream”; NRSV, TEV, NLT “groan.”} Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor!
For you will leave the city
and live in the open field.
You will go to Babylon,
but there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will deliver ^{▼▼ Or “redeem” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).} you
from the power ^{▼▼ Heb “hand.” The Hebrew idiom is a metonymy for power or control.} of your enemies.