WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.120 Chapter 5 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops, he hath laid siege 00:06.120 --> 00:06.800 against us. 00:07.220 --> 00:10.640 They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 00:11.840 --> 00:16.660 But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, 00:17.720 --> 00:21.940 yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, 00:22.840 --> 00:26.040 whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 00:27.480 --> 00:31.620 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth 00:31.620 --> 00:32.560 hath brought forth. 00:33.160 --> 00:36.520 Then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.440 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of 00:42.440 --> 00:44.020 the name of the Lord his God. 00:44.760 --> 00:49.480 And they shall abide, for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. 00:50.080 --> 00:54.100 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our 00:54.100 --> 00:56.640 land, and when he shall tread in our palaces. 00:57.520 --> 01:01.560 Then shall we raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men, 01:02.040 --> 01:06.400 and they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod and 01:06.400 --> 01:07.400 the entrances thereof. 01:08.020 --> 01:12.080 Thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, 01:12.400 --> 01:14.340 and when he treadeth within our borders. 01:14.840 --> 01:19.120 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the 01:19.120 --> 01:24.740 Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for 01:24.740 --> 01:25.580 the sons of men. 01:26.660 --> 01:30.480 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, 01:30.920 --> 01:35.900 as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, 01:36.300 --> 01:41.320 who, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can 01:41.320 --> 01:41.640 deliver. 01:42.800 --> 01:47.760 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall 01:47.760 --> 01:48.440 be cut off. 01:49.560 --> 01:54.280 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy 01:54.280 --> 01:58.000 horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots, 01:58.440 --> 02:03.420 and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds, 02:04.120 --> 02:08.420 and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand, and thou shalt have no more 02:08.420 --> 02:09.080 soothsayers. 02:10.060 --> 02:14.760 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst 02:14.760 --> 02:18.640 of thee, and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 02:19.240 --> 02:23.300 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee, so I will destroy thy 02:23.300 --> 02:28.000 cities, and I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, 02:28.240 --> 02:29.940 such as they have not heard.