Isaiah 11
1 A shoot will come up from Jesse’s stump; a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him: a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and strength, a spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
3 His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what his eyes see or decide by what his ears hear.
4 He will judge the poor with justice and decide fairly on behalf of the humble of the land; he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and put the wicked to death with the breath of his lips.
5 Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his hips.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; the calf, the young lion, and the fattened animal will be together, and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze together, and their young will lie down together; the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 A nursing child will play beside the snake’s hole, and a weaned child will put a hand into the viper’s den.
9 No one will harm or destroy anywhere on my holy mountain, because the earth will be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10 On that day, Jesse’s root will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will seek it, and its resting place will be glorious.
11 On that day, the Lord will reach out his hand again to reclaim the remnant of his people: those left in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather Israel’s exiles; he will bring together Judah’s scattered people from the four corners of the earth.
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will pass away, and Judah’s enemies will be cut off. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not be hostile toward Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines to the west, and together they will plunder the peoples of the East; Edom and Moab will be under their hand, and the Ammonites will obey them.
15 The LORD will dry up the tongue of the sea of Egypt and wave his hand over the river with his scorching wind; he will strike it into seven streams and make it possible to cross in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people, those left in Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they came up from the land of Egypt.
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