2. As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah,though you are the least significant of Judah’s forces,one who is to be a ruler in Israel on my behalf will come out from you.His origin is from remote times, from ancient days.
3. Therefore, he will give them upuntil the time when she who is in labor gives birth.The rest of his kin will return to the people of Israel.
4. He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.They will dwell secure,because he will surely become great throughout the earth;
5. he will become one of peace.When Assyria invades our land and treads down our fortresses,then we will raise up against him seven shepherds and eight human princes.
6. They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword.He will rescue us from Assyriawhen he invades our landand treads within our territory.
7. Then the few remaining in Jacob will be amid many peopleslike dew from the Lord, like spring showers upon the grass,which does not hope for humans or wait for human ones.