Micah 4:10

New Century Version

People of Jerusalem, strain and be in pain. Be like a woman trying to give birth, because now you must leave the city and live in the field. You will go to Babylon, but you will be saved from that place. The Lord will go there and buy you back from your enemies.

Cross References

2 Kings 20:18

‘Some of your own children, those who will be born to you, will be taken away. And they will become servants in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”

2 Kings 25:4

Then the city was broken into, and the whole army ran away at night through the gate between the two walls by the king’s garden. While the Babylonians were still surrounding the city, Zedekiah and his men ran away toward the Jordan Valley.

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the Lord brought the king of Assyria’s army commanders to attack Judah. They captured Manasseh, put hooks in him, placed bronze chains on his hands, and took him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:20

Nebuchadnezzar took captive to Babylon the people who were left alive, and he forced them to be slaves for him and his descendants. They remained there as slaves until the Persian kingdom defeated Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:23

This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a Temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Now may the Lord your God be with all of you who are his people. You are free to go to Jerusalem.

Psalm 106:10

He saved them from those who hated them. He saved them from their enemies,

Isaiah 43:14

This is what the Lord, who saves you, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I will send armies to Babylon for you, and I will knock down all its locked gates. The Babylonians will shout their cries of sorrow.

Isaiah 45:13

I will bring Cyrus to do good things, and I will make his work easy. He will rebuild my city and set my people free without any payment or reward. The Lord All-Powerful says this.”

Isaiah 48:20

My people, leave Babylon! Run from the Babylonians! Tell this news with shouts of joy to the people; spread it everywhere on earth. Say, “The Lord has saved his servants, the people of Jacob.”

Jeremiah 13:4

“Take the belt you bought and are wearing, and go to Perath. Hide the belt there in a crack in the rocks.”

Jeremiah 15:21

“I will save you from these wicked people and rescue you from these cruel people.”

Jeremiah 29:20

You captives, whom I forced to leave Jerusalem and go to Babylon, listen to the message from the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman having a baby, distress like a woman having her first child. It is the sound of Jerusalem gasping for breath. She lifts her hands in prayer and says, “Oh! I am about to faint before my murderers!”

Jeremiah 48:41

The towns of Moab will be captured, and the strong, walled cities will be defeated. At that time Moab’s warriors will be frightened, like a woman who is having a baby.

Jeremiah 52:27

There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed. So the people of Judah were led away from their country as captives.

Hosea 1:10

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Hosea 13:13

The pain of birth will come for him, but he is like a foolish baby who won’t come out of its mother’s womb.

Hosea 2:14

“So I am going to attract her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.

Micah 5:2

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are too small to be among the army groups from Judah, from you will come one who will rule Israel for me. He comes from very old times, from days long ago.”

Micah 5:3

The Lord will give up his people until the one who is having a baby gives birth; then the rest of his relatives will return to the people of Israel.

Revelation 12:14

But the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle so she could fly to the place prepared for her in the desert. There she would be taken care of for three and one-half years, away from the snake.