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V] :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.


 * 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,