¹³ Und das Wort Jehovas geschah zu mir also:

¹ Und du, Bethlehem, Ephrata, zu klein, um unter den Tausenden von Juda zu sein, aus dir wird mir hervorkommen, der Herrscher über Israel sein soll; und seine Ausgänge (d. h. Ursprünge) sind von der Urzeit, von den Tagen der Ewigkeit her.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought against them.

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them?