5 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops:
he hath laid siege against us:
they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
² But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
³ Therefore will he give them up,
until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth:
then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
⁴ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord,
in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God;
and they shall abide:
for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
⁵ And this man shall be the peace,
when the Assyrian shall come into our land:
and when he shall tread in our palaces,
then shall we raise against him seven shepherds,
and eight principal men.
⁶ And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword,
and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof:
thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he cometh into our land,
and when he treadeth within our borders.
⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people
as a dew from the Lord,
as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man,
nor waiteth for the sons of men.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles
in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest,
as a young lion among the flocks of sheep:
who, if he go through,
both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces,
and none can deliver.
⁹ Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries,
and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord,
that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee,
and I will destroy thy chariots:
¹¹ and I will cut off the cities of thy land,
and throw down all thy strong holds:
¹² and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand;
and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
¹³ thy graven images also will I cut off,
and thy standing images out of the midst of thee;
and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
¹⁴ And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee:
so will I destroy thy cities.
¹⁵ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen,
such as they have not heard.