Albert Barnes Commentary Micah 4:10

"Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies." — Micah 4:10 (ASV)

Be in pain, and labor to bring forth - (Literally, Writhe and burst forth), as if to say, “You must suffer, but your suffering and your joy shall be one. You cannot have the joy without the suffering. As surely as you suffer, you shall have joy. In all sorrow, do not lose faith and hope, and thou shalt be sorrowful, but thy sorrow shall be turned into joy (John 16:20).

Cyril says: “Good daughter, be very patient in the pangs, bear up against your sorrows,” so the birth will be near. Yet for the time she must go forth out of the city into captivity. And thou shalt dwell in the field, houseless, under tents, as captives were accustomed to be kept, until all were gathered together to be led away; a grievous exchange for her former luxury, and as punishment for their oppression (Amos 6:1–14; Micah 2:8–9).

And thou shalt go even to Babylon - Not Babylon, but Assyria was the scourge of God in Micah’s time. Babylon was scarcely known, a far country (2 Kings 20:14). Yet Micah is taught of God to declare that there the two tribes shall be carried captive, although the ten were carried captive by Assyria. There (see the note at Hosea 2:15) shalt thou be delivered, there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. God’s judgments, or purifying trials, or visitation of His saints, continue on their course until their end is reached.

Those who suffer them cannot turn them aside; those who inflict them cannot add to them or detain them. The prison house is the place of deliverance for Joseph and Peter; the Red Sea for Israel; the judges were raised up when Israel was mightily oppressed; Jabesh-Gilead was delivered when the seventh day had come (1 Samuel 11:3, 1 Samuel 11:10–11); the walls of Jerusalem were the end of Sennacherib. Judah would long be in the very hand and grasp of Babylon, yet its clenched hand must be opened.