Mic 4:9-13 | ESV | STEP | Now why do you cry aloud ? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished , that pain seized you like a woman in labor ?

Micah 4:9-13

9 Now why do you cry aloud?
^aIs there no king in you?
^bHas your counselor perished,
that ^cpain seized you like a woman in labor?
10 ^dWrithe and groan, ^{▼▼Or push} O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for ^fnow you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you ^gshall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
^hthere the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now ⁱmany nations
are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
and ^jlet our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
12 But ^kthey do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
that ^lhe has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
13 Arise and thresh,
O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
and ^mshall devote ^{▼▼Hebrew devote to destruction} ^otheir gain to the Lord,
their wealth to ^pthe Lord of the whole earth.