Isaiah 11:1-16
11 A twig+ will grow out of the stump of Jesʹse,+And a sprout+ from his roots will bear fruit.
2 And the spirit of Jehovah will settle upon him,+The spirit of wisdom+ and of understanding,The spirit of counsel and of mightiness,+The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
3 And he will find delight in the fear of Jehovah.+
He will not judge by what appears to his eyes,Nor reprove simply according to what his ears hear.+
4 He will judge the lowly with fairness,*And with uprightness he will give reproof in behalf of the meek ones of the earth.
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 of his hips.+
6 The wolf will reside for a while with the lamb,+And with the young goat the leopard will lie down,And the calf and the lion* and the fattened animal will all be together;*+And a little boy will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will feed together,And their young will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the bull.+
8 The nursing child will play over the lair of a cobra,And a weaned child will put his hand over the den of a poisonous snake.
9 They will not cause any harm+Or any ruin in all my holy mountain,+Because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of JehovahAs the waters cover the sea.+
10 In that day the root of Jesʹse+ will stand up as a signal* for the peoples.+
To him the nations will turn for guidance,*+And his resting-place will become glorious.
11 In that day Jehovah will again offer his hand, a second time, to reclaim the remnant of his people who are left from As·syrʹi·a,+ from Egypt,+ from Pathʹros,+ from Cush,+ from Eʹlam,+ from Shiʹnar,* from Haʹmath, and from the islands of the sea.+
12 He will raise up a signal* for the nations and gather the dispersed ones of Israel,+ and he will gather together the scattered ones of Judah from the four corners of the earth.+
13 The jealousy of Eʹphra·im will be gone,+And those who show hostility to Judah will be done away with.
Eʹphra·im will not be jealous of Judah,Nor will Judah show hostility toward Eʹphra·im.+
14 And they will swoop down on the slopes* of the Phi·lisʹtines to the west;Together they will plunder the people of the East.
They will thrust out their hand against* Eʹdom+ and Moʹab,+And the Amʹmon·ites will become their subjects.+
15 Jehovah will divide* the gulf* of the Egyptian sea+And wave his hand over the River.*+
With his scorching breath* he will strike it in its* seven torrents,And he will cause people to walk across in their sandals.
16 And there will be a highway+ out of As·syrʹi·a for the remnant of his people who are left,+As there was for Israel in the day he came out of the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
^ Or “spirit.”
^ Or “righteousness.”
^ Or “the maned young lion.”
^ Or possibly, “And the calf and the lion will feed together.”
^ Or “The nations will search for him.”
^ Or “signal pole.”
^ That is, Babylonia.
^ Or “signal pole.”
^ Lit., “shoulder.”
^ Or “extend their power over.”
^ Or possibly, “dry up.”
^ Lit., “tongue.”
^ That is, the Euphrates.
^ Or “spirit.”
^ Or possibly, “strike it into.”
