4. I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.
5. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;A King shall reign and prosper,And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
6. In His days Judah will be saved,And Israel will dwell safely;Now this is His name by which He will be called:THE Lord OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
7. “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’
8. but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.”
9. My heart within me is brokenBecause of the prophets;All my bones shake.I am like a drunken man,And like a man whom wine has overcome,Because of the Lord,And because of His holy words.
10. For the land is full of adulterers;For because of a curse the land mourns.The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.Their course of life is evil,And their might is not right.
11. “For both prophet and priest are profane;Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
12. “Therefore their way shall be to themLike slippery ways;In the darkness they shall be driven onAnd fall in them;For I will bring disaster on them,The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.