Shepherd Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your possession, dwelling alone in the thicket, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.
And now by what can it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your eyes? Is it not in Your going with us? And we are distinguished, I and Your people, from all the nations which are on the face of the earth?
Behold, you are beautiful, My love. Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are as doves’ from behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats which recline from Mount Gilead.
And it shall be in that day, the great rams` horn shall be blown; and those perishing in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Blooming, it shall bloom and exult; yea, with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory shall be given to it, the honor of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the honor of our God.
By the hand of your servants you have reproached the Lord, and said, By my many chariots I have come up to the tops of mountains, the sides of Lebanon, and I cut down its tall cedars, its choice firs; and I will go to heights of its end, the forest of its Carmel.
They shall not hunger and not thirst; and the heat and sun shall not strike them. For He who has mercy on them shall lead them; and He shall guide them by the springs of water.
In the days of her affliction and her wanderings, Jerusalem remembers all her desirable things from previous days in the falling of her people into the hand of the oppressive one, and there is no ally for her. The oppressive ones saw her; they laughed at her annihilation.
And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as you formerly were, and I will do better than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
In that day I will raise up the booth of David that has fallen, and I will wall up its breaks. And I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as the days of old;
And those of the Negeb shall possess the mountain of Esau, and the low country of the Philistines. And they shall possess Ephraim’s fields, and Samaria’s fields. And Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
And He shall stand and shepherd us in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He is great to the ends of the earth.
The remnant of Israel shall not do injustice, and not speak lies. And a deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lie down, and no one is terrifying them.
And I will return to save them out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, for space shall not be found for them.
And I fed the flock of slaughter, the true humble one of the flock. And I took two staffs for Myself: the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and I behold him from the heights. Behold, it is a people that shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the nations.
And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had many livestock, a very great multitude. And they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. And, behold, the place was a place for livestock.
“And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, by no means are you least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you shall come out One ruling, who shall shepherd My people Israel.” Mic. 5:2