~ A Righteous Branch ~

"The days are coming," declares the Lord,
"When I will raise up to David a righteous Branch,
a King who will reign wisely
and do what is just and right in the land.
In His days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which He will be called:
The Lord Our Righteousness.

"So the, the days are coming," declares the Lord,
"When people will no longer say,
'As surely as the Lord lives,
who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,'
but they will say,
'As surely as the Lord lives,
who brought the descendants of Israel
up out of the land of the North
and out of all the countries where He had banished them'
Then they will live in their own land."

(Jeremiah 23:5-8)