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Micah 4:10

King James Version (KJV)

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Micah 4:10

Verse 10 of 13

Scripture focus

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.

Micah 4:10 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Micah 4:10

Theological / Devotional

Be in pain. In view of the coming captivity.

Go forth. An announcement of the approaching captivity. The Jews would be compelled to leave Jerusalem, live in the open country, “in the field,” while on the way to Babylon. Isaiah, Micah’s contemporary, also predicted Babylon’s conquest of Judah (see Isaiah 39:3-8).

Delivered. A partial fulfillment of this prediction took place evidently in 536 B.C. under Cyrus (see Ezra 1:1-4; Jeremiah 29:10) and subsequently under Artaxerxes. However, the returnees were not the spiritually revived people that the discipline of the Exile and the instruction of the prophets were designed to produce. Consequently the glorious prospect pictured in Micah 4:1-8 was not realized by those who returned to the land of Judah after the Babylonian Exile.

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