Micah 4:11

Micah 4:11

9 Now why do you cry aloud?
^aIs there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For ^bpangs have seized you like a woman in¹ labor.

10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to ^aBabylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the ^bLord will ^credeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

11 ^aNow also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye ^blook upon Zion.”

12 But they do not know ^athe thoughts of the Lord,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
For He will gather them ^blike sheaves to the threshing floor.

13 “Arise^a and ^bthresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hooves bronze;
You shall ^cbeat in pieces many peoples;
^dI will consecrate their gain to the Lord,
And their substance to ^ethe Lord of the whole earth.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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many nations—the subject peoples composing Babylon's armies: and also Edom, Ammon, etc., who exulted in Judah's fall (Lamentations 2:16; Obadiah 1:11-13).

defiled—metaphor from a virgin. Let her be defiled (that is, outraged by violence and bloodshed), and let our eye gaze insultingly on her shame and sorrow (Micah 7:10). Her foes desired to feast their eyes on her calamities.

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