Mic 4:9-5:3, Joh 16:21-22 | 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.

Micah 5:1-3

The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem

1 ^{▼▼Ch 4:14 in Hebrew} Now muster your troops, O daughter ^{▼▼That is, city} of troops;
siege is laid against us;
with a rod ^sthey strike the judge of Israel
on the cheek.
2 ^{▼▼Ch 5:1 in Hebrew} ^uBut you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of ^vJudah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ^wruler in Israel,
^xwhose coming forth is ^yfrom of old,
from ancient days.
3 Therefore he shall give them up ^zuntil the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then ^aathe rest of his brothers shall return
to the people of Israel.

John 16:21-22

21 ^abWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 ^acSo also you have sorrow now, but ^adI will see you again, and ^aeyour hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.