Micah 4:10

Good News Translation

Twist and groan, people of Jerusalem, like a woman giving birth, for now you will have to leave the city and live in the open country. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the Lord will save you from your enemies.

Cross References

2 Kings 20:18

Some of your own direct descendants will be taken away and made eunuchs to serve in the palace of the king of Babylonia.”

2 Kings 25:4

the city walls were broken through. Although the Babylonians were surrounding the city, all the soldiers escaped during the night. They left by way of the royal garden, went through the gateway connecting the two walls, and fled in the direction of the Jordan Valley.

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the Lord let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:20

He took all the survivors to Babylonia, where they served him and his descendants as slaves until the rise of the Persian Empire.

2 Chronicles 36:23

“This is the command of Cyrus, Emperor of Persia. The Lord, the God of Heaven, has made me ruler over the whole world and has given me the responsibility of building a temple for him in Jerusalem in Judah. Now, all of you who are God's people, go there, and may the Lord your God be with you.”

Psalm 106:10

He saved them from those who hated them; he rescued them from their enemies.

Isaiah 43:14

Israel's holy God, the Lord who saves you, says, “To save you, I will send an army against Babylon; I will break down the city gates, and the shouts of her people will turn into crying.

Isaiah 45:13

I myself have stirred Cyrus to action to fulfill my purpose and put things right. I will straighten out every road that he travels. He will rebuild my city, Jerusalem, and set my captive people free. No one has hired him or bribed him to do this.” The Lord Almighty has spoken.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out from Babylon, go free! Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere: “The Lord has saved his servant Israel!”

Jeremiah 13:4

“Go to the Euphrates River and hide the shorts in a hole in the rocks.”

Jeremiah 15:21

I will rescue you from the power of wicked and violent people. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 29:20

All of you whom I sent into exile in Babylonia, listen to what I, the Lord, say.’

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, “I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!”

Jeremiah 48:41

and the towns and fortresses will be captured. On that day Moab's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 52:27

in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.

Hosea 1:10

The people of Israel will become like the sand of the sea, more than can be counted or measured. Now God says to them, “You are not my people,” but the day is coming when he will say to them, “You are the children of the living God!”

Hosea 13:13

Israel has a chance to live, but is too foolish to take it—like a child about to be born, who refuses to come out of the womb.

Hosea 2:14

So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.

Micah 5:2

The Lord says, “Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times.”

Micah 5:3

So the Lord will abandon his people to their enemies until the woman who is to give birth has her son. Then those Israelites who are in exile will be reunited with their own people.

Revelation 12:14

She was given the two wings of a large eagle in order to fly to her place in the desert, where she will be taken care of for three and a half years, safe from the dragon's attack.