4. Then I will appoint responsible shepherds who will care for them, and they will never be afraid again. Not a single one will be lost or missing. I, the lord, have spoken!
5. “For the time is coming,”says the lord,“when I will raise up a righteous descendantfrom King David’s line.He will be a King who rules with wisdom.He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
6. And this will be his name:‘The lord Is Our Righteousness.’In that day Judah will be saved,and Israel will live in safety.
7. “In that day,” says the lord, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the lord lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.’