Micah 4:9

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“Now, why do you ^amake a loud shout?

Is there no king among you,

Or has your ^bcounselor perished,

That writhing has taken hold of you like a woman in childbirth?

Micah 4:10-13

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^aWrithe and labor to give birth,

Daughter of Zion,

Like a woman in childbirth;

For now you will ^bgo out of the city,

Dwell in the field,

And go to Babylon.

^cThere you will be delivered;

^dThere Yahweh will redeem you

From the hand of your enemies.

But now ^amany nations have been assembled against you

Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,

And let our eyes behold Zion in triumph.’

But they do not ^aknow the thoughts of Yahweh,

And they do not understand His counsel;

For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Arise and ^athresh, daughter of Zion,

For your horn I will make iron,

And your hoofs I will make bronze,

That you may ^bpulverize many peoples,

That you may ^cdevote to Yahweh their greedy gain unto destruction

And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Micah 5:1-3

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The Ruler Will Come from Bethlehem

“¹Now muster yourselves in troops, daughter of troops;

²They have laid siege against us;

With a rod they will ^astrike the judge of Israel on the cheek.

¹But as for ^ayou, Bethlehem Ephrathah,

Too little to be among the clans of Judah,

From ^byou One will go forth for Me to be ^cruler in Israel.

²His goings forth are ^dfrom everlasting,

From the ancient days.”

Therefore He will ^agive them up until the time

When she ^bwho is in childbirth has borne a child.

Then the ^cremainder of His brothers

Will return to the sons of Israel.

John 16:21

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21 ^aWhenever a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a ¹child has been born into the world.

John 16:22

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22 Therefore ^ayou too have sorrow now; but ^bI will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.