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Purpose in the Pain
Commentators explain the metaphor of childbirth to describe Zion's suffering. The pain of exile is portrayed as real and intense, like labor pangs. However, it is not pointless. Just as labor leads to the joy of a new birth, this period of trial is the necessary path to God's promised deliverance. As Charles Spurgeon notes, these are 'sharp pangs, but they lead to life.'
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Micah
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Albert Barnes
On Micah 4:10
18th Century
Theologian
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 …
Charles Ellicott
On Micah 4:10
19th Century
Bishop
Thou shalt go even to Babylon.—This prediction has naturally caused difficulty to those who doubt the power of prophets t…
Charles Spurgeon
On Micah 4:10
19th Century
Preacher
Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now you shall go forth out of the city, and you shall dw…
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John Calvin
On Micah 4:9–10
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet blends here things in their nature entirely contrary—that the Jews were for a time to be cut off, and that afterwards they were to reco…
John Gill
On Micah 4:10
17th Century
Pastor
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion ,
like a woman in travail
Matthew Henry
On Micah 4:9–13
17th Century
Minister
Many nations would assemble against Zion to rejoice in her calamities. They would not understand that the Lord had collected them as sheaves are ga…