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MICAH
- Is thy counsellor perished?
- For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
- Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail:
- For now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field,
- And thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered;
- There the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
- Now also many nations are gathered against thee,
- That say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
- But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,
- Neither understand they his counsel:
- For he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
- Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion:
- For I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass:
- And thou shalt beat in pieces many people:
- And I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord,
- And their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
- Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops:
- He hath laid siege against us:
- They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
- But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
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