1And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too small to be among the thousands of Judah, from you one will go out to me to be ruler in Israel, and his origin is from of old, from days of eternity.2Therefore they will give them up until the time when she who gives birth has given birth, and the remainder of his brothers will return to the sons of Israel.3And he will stand and shepherd in the might of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will dwell, for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.4And this shall be peace—Assyria: when he comes into our land and when he treads in our palaces/temple complexes, then we will raise up against him seven shepherds and eight chieftains of humanity.5And they will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod in its entrances, and he will save us from Assyria when he comes into our land and when he treads in our border.