4. Then I will appoint responsible shepherds who will care for them, and they will never be afraid again. Not a single one will be lost or missing. I, the lord, have spoken!
5. “For the time is coming,”says the lord,“when I will raise up a righteous descendantfrom King David’s line.He will be a King who rules with wisdom.He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
6. And this will be his name:‘The lord Is Our Righteousness.’In that day Judah will be saved,and Israel will live in safety.
7. “In that day,” says the lord, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the lord lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.’
8. Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as the lord lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”
9. My heart is broken because of the false prophets,and my bones tremble.I stagger like a drunkard,like someone overcome by wine,because of the holy wordsthe lord has spoken against them.
10. For the land is full of adultery,and it lies under a curse.The land itself is in mourning—its wilderness pastures are dried up.For they all do eviland abuse what power they have.
11. “Even the priests and prophetsare ungodly, wicked men.I have seen their despicable actsright here in my own Temple,”says the lord.
12. “Therefore, the paths they takewill become slippery.They will be chased through the dark,and there they will fall.For I will bring disaster upon themat the time fixed for their punishment.I, the lord, have spoken!
13. “I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil,for they prophesied in the name of Baaland led my people of Israel into sin.