1Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
2The people walking in darkness
3You have enlarged the nation
4For as in the day of Midian
5For every trampling boot of battle
6For unto us a child is born,
7Of the increase of His government and peace
8The Lord has sent a message against Jacob,
9All the people will know it—
10“The bricks have fallen,
11The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him
12Aram 9:12 That is, Syria from the east and Philistia from the west
13But the people did not return to Him who struck them;
14So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail,
15The head is the elder and honorable man,
16For those who guide this people mislead them,
17Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men;
18For wickedness burns like a fire
19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts
20They carve out what is on the right,
21Manasseh devours Ephraim,