10. 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.
11. Many nations have gathered to attack you. They say, “Jerusalem must be destroyed! We will see this city in ruins!”
12. But these nations do not know what is in the Lord's mind. They do not realize that they have been gathered together to be punished in the same way that corn is brought in to be threshed.
13. The Lord says, “People of Jerusalem, go and punish your enemies! I will make you as strong as a bull with iron horns and bronze hoofs. You will crush many nations, and the wealth they got by violence you will present to me, the Lord of the whole world.”