Miquéias 4:10

10 Contorça-se em agonia, ó povo da cidade de Sião,como a mulher em trabalho de parto,porque agora terá que deixar os seus murospara habitar em campo aberto.Você irá para a Babilônia,e lá será libertada.Lá o SENHOR a resgataráda mão dos seus inimigos.

Miquéias 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 4:10

Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in travail
Bear thy troubles and calamities, sufferings and sorrows, patiently, and expect deliverance from them, as a woman in such circumstances does: or, as some render it in the future, "thou shalt be in pain" ^F25; and so is a prediction of their distress and captivity, which is expressed in plainer terms in the following clauses: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city;
the city of Jerusalem; either by flight, in a private and secret manner, as Zedekiah and his princes, and part of his army did; or by force, being taken and led out by the enemy: and thou shalt dwell in the field;
being turned out of their houses, they were obliged to lodge in the fields, while they were collected together, and in a body marched as captives to Babylon; and while on the road lay in the open fields, and not in houses, who had been used to dwell in a city, and in their panelled houses; but now even their city itself was ploughed like a field, as before predicted: and thou shalt go [even] to Babylon;
to the city of Babylon, as their king did, and many of them also; and others of them into various parts of that kingdom: this is a clear prophecy of the Babylonish captivity, which came to pass upwards of a hundred years after this: there shalt thou be delivered;
after seventy years captivity, by the hand of Cyrus; who taking the city of Babylon, and making himself master of the whole empire, delivered the Jews from their bondage, and gave them liberty to return to their own land: there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies;
the Chaldeans: and this was typical of the deliverance and redemption of all the Lord's people from the hand of all their spiritual enemies; from Satan and the world, law, death, and hell; by the blood of the great Redeemer, and near kinsman of his people, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (ylwx) "dolebis ac suspirabis", so some in Vatablus.

Miquéias 4:10 In-Context

8 Quanto a você, ó torre do rebanho,ó fortaleza da cidade de Sião,o antigo domínio será restaurado a você;a realeza voltará para a cidade de Jerusalém”.

9 Agora, por que gritar tão alto?Você não tem rei?Seu conselheiro morreu,para que a dor seja tão forte para vocêcomo a de uma mulher em trabalho de parto?

10 Contorça-se em agonia, ó povo da cidade de Sião,como a mulher em trabalho de parto,porque agora terá que deixar os seus murospara habitar em campo aberto.Você irá para a Babilônia,e lá será libertada.Lá o SENHOR a resgataráda mão dos seus inimigos.

11 Mas agora muitas naçõesestão reunidas contra você.Elas dizem: “Que Sião seja profanada,e que isso aconteça diante dos nossos olhos!”

12 Mas elas não conhecemos pensamentos do SENHOR;não compreendem o planodaquele que as ajunta como feixes para a eira.