9. Now why do you cry out so loudly?Isn’t the king in you?Or has your counselor perished,so that pain has seized you like that of a woman in labor?
10. Writhe and scream, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor!Now you will leave the city and dwell in the open field;you will go to Babylon.There you will be rescued;there the Lord will redeem you from the power of your enemies.
11. Now many nations may gather against you;they say, "Let her be defiled,"or "Let our eyes look with desire at Zion."
12. But they don’t know the plans of the Lord;they can’t understand his scheme,namely, that he will bring them like grain to the threshing floor!
13. Arise and thresh, Daughter Zion,for I will make your horn out of iron;your hooves I will make out of bronze.You will crush many peoples;you will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.