^5:1 Now you will gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

    ^5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you he will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from long-ago, from the days of everlasting.

    ^5:3 Therefore he will give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth. Then the residue of his brothers will return to the sons of Israel. ^5:4 And he will stand and will feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God and they will abide. For now he will be great to the ends of the earth. ^5:5 And this man will be our peace.

    When the Assyrian will come into our land and when he will tread in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men. ^5:6 And they will waste the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod in the entrances of it. And he will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our border.

    ^5:7 And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that do not abide for man, nor wait for the sons of men. ^5:8 And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces and there is none to deliver.

    ^5:9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries and let all your enemies be cut off. ^5:10And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you and will destroy your chariots, ^5:11 and I will cut off the cities of your land and will throw down all your strongholds.

    ^5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand and you will have no more soothsayers. ^5:13 And I will cut off your graven images and your pillars out of the midst of you and you will no more worship the work of your hands. ^5:14 And I will pluck up your Asherim {pole-images} out of the midst of you and I will destroy your cities. ^5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that did not listen.