2:3 Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! 1
It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. 2
You will no longer 3 walk proudly,
for it will be a time of catastrophe.
2:12 I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob,
I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. 4
I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, 5
like a flock in the middle of a pasture; 6
they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise. 7
4:10 Twist and strain, 8 Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor!
For you will leave the city
and live in the open field.
You will go to Babylon,
but there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will deliver 9 you
from the power 10 of your enemies.
4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!
For I will give you iron horns; 11
I will give you bronze hooves,
and you will crush many nations.” 12
You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,
and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler 13 of the whole earth. 14
5:4 He will assume his post 15 and shepherd the people 16 by the Lord’s strength,
by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. 17
They will live securely, 18 for at that time he will be honored 19
even in the distant regions of 20 the earth.
5:8 Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples.
They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
which attacks when it passes through;
it rips its prey 21 and there is no one to stop it. 22