Micah 4:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Writhe and groan, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go forth from the city and camp in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hands of your enemies.

Cross References

2 Kings 20:18

Some of your own sons who are born to you shall be taken away; they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

2 Kings 25:4

Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive in manacles, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:20

He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,

2 Chronicles 36:23

“Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Let any of those among you who are of his people—may the Lord their God be with them!—go up.”

Psalm 106:10

So he saved them from the hand of the foe and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

Isaiah 43:14

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentation.

Isaiah 45:13

I have aroused Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his paths straight; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out from Babylon; flee from Chaldea; declare this with a shout of joy; proclaim it; send it forth to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Jeremiah 13:4

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

Jeremiah 15:21

I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

Jeremiah 29:20

But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of the Lord:

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Jeremiah 48:41

the towns shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The hearts of the warriors of Moab, on that day, shall be like the heart of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 52:27

And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile out of its land.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Hosea 13:13

The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the proper time he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.

Hosea 2:14

Therefore, I will now allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

Micah 5:3

Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return to the people of Israel.

Revelation 12:14

But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.