004:010 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a
woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city,
and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon.
There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
004:011 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say,
"Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."
004:012 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they
understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves
to the threshing floor.
004:013 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces
many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh,
and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
005:001 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.
005:002 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah,
out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
005:003 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.
005:004 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength
of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God:
and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends
of the earth.
005:005 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land,
and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise
against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
005:006 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land
of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian,
when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.
005:007 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples,
like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't
wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
005:008 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst
of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he
goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there
is no one to deliver.
005:009 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let
all of your enemies be cut off.
005:010 "It will happen in that day," says Yahweh, "That I will
cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will
destroy your chariots.
005:011 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down
all your strongholds.
005:012 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall
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