4. I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it!
5. “I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly comewhen I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David.He will rule over them with wisdom and understandingand will do what is just and right in the land.
6. Under his rule Judah will enjoy safetyand Israel will live in security.This is the name he will go by:‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’
7. “So I, the Lord, say: ‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.”