Verse Lens · Context pointer
Micah 4:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
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Role in This Section
This verse returns to Zion's present cry and labor pain through questions about king and counselor.
Read It With
- Micah 4:9-13
Read Micah 4:9 with 4:9-13. This verse returns to Zion's present cry and labor pain through questions about king and counselor. The complete unit establishes this movement: The poem moves through Zion's labor pain and Babylonian exile to rescue, then shifts to hostile nations gathered like sheaves and daughter Zion empowered to thresh; the violent tension with 4:1-5 must not be suppressed or imitated.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line within Micah 4:9-13. The surrounding lines are necessary because they complete this movement: The poem moves through Zion's labor pain and Babylonian exile to rescue, then shifts to hostile nations gathered like sheaves and daughter Zion empowered to thresh; the violent tension with 4:1-5 must not be suppressed or imitated.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Micah 4:9-13 — Daughter Zion Labors through Exile and Faces the NationsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Micah 4:9-13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 4:9-13
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