Micah 4:6–12
6 “The time is coming
when I will gather those who are disabled,”
announces the Lord.
“I will bring together those
who were taken away as prisoners.
I will gather those I have allowed to suffer.
7 I will make the disabled my faithful people.
I will make those who were driven away from their homes a strong nation.
I will rule over them on Mount Zion.
I will be their King from that time on and forever.
like a guard tower for my flock.
City of Zion, you used to be
a place of safety for my people.
The glorious kingdom you had before
will be given back to you.
Once again a king will rule over your people.”
9 Why are you crying out so loudly now?
Don’t you have a king?
Have your advisers died?
Is that why pain comes on you
like the pain of a woman having a baby?
10 People of Zion, groan with pain.
Cry out like a woman having a baby.
Soon you must leave your city.
You must camp in the open fields.
You will have to go to Babylonia.
But that’s where the Lord will save you.
There he will set you free
from the powerful hand of your enemies.
have gathered together to attack you.
They say, “Let Jerusalem be polluted.
We want to see others laugh when Zion suffers!”
12 But those nations don’t know
what the Lord has in mind.
They don’t understand his plan.
He will gather them up like bundles of grain.
He will take them to his threshing floor.