1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops,daughter of troops.He has laid siege against us.They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,being small among the clans of Judah,out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel;whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth.Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of the Lord,in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God:and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.