Dead Sea Scroll 4Q168 - 4QMicah Pesher?

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Translation by Mark Wessner

(a commentary on Micah 4:8-12)

1 . . . of the daughter of Jerusalem. Now, why do you cry out? Do you not have a king among you? Have you lost your advisor?
2 Have labour pains gripped you like a woman giving birth? Have labour pains, daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth, for
3 now you will come out of the city and settle in open fields, and you will go to Babylon. There you will be saved. There
4 the Lord will deliver you from the hand of your enemies. Now, many nations will assemble against you,
5 saying, let her be defiled and let us set our eyes upon Zion. They do not know the thoughts
6 of the Lord, and they do not understand his plan . . .

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