Micah 4:9 meaning and explanation

Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

Micah 4:9, Berean Standard Bible

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Micah speaks to Jerusalem, the Daughter of Zion, as siege and exile loom. The questions are ironic: the people wail as though they had no king or counselor, yet the LORD is their true king, and their human leaders have failed them.

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