Isaiah 11

English Standard Version

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

11 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of ^(A)Jesse,
    and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
²And ^(B)the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
    the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and might,
    the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
^(C)He shall not judge by ^(D)what his eyes see,
    or decide disputes by ^(E)what his ears hear,
⁴but ^(F)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall ^(G)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and ^(H)with the breath of his lips ^(I)he shall kill the wicked.
⁵Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and ^(J)faithfulness the belt of his loins.

⁶^(K)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
⁹^(L)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all ^(M)my holy mountain;
^(N)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰In that day ^(O)the root of ^(P)Jesse, who shall stand as ^(Q)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

¹¹^(R)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, ^(S)from Assyria, ^(T)from Egypt, from ^(U)Pathros, from ^(V)Cush,^[a] from ^(W)Elam, from ^(X)Shinar, from ^(Y)Hamath, and from ^(Z)the coastlands of the sea.

¹²He will raise ^(AA)a signal for the nations
    and will assemble ^(AB)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.
¹³^(AC)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
    and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
    and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴^(AD)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
    and together they shall plunder ^(AE)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand ^(AF)against ^(AG)Edom and ^(AH)Moab,
    and ^(AI)the Ammonites shall obey them.
¹⁵And the Lord will utterly destroy^[b]
    ^(AJ)the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over ^(AK)the River^[c]
    with his scorching breath,^[d]
and strike it into seven channels,
    and he will lead people across in sandals.
¹⁶And there will be ^(AL)a highway from Assyria
    for the remnant that remains of his people,
^(AM)as there was for Israel
    when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Footnotes

Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia
Isaiah 11:15 Hebrew devote to destruction
Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 11:15 Or wind

Isaiah 65

English Standard Version

Judgment and Salvation

65 ^(A)I was ready to be sought by ^(B)those who did not ask for me;
    I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
    to a nation that was not called by^[a] my name.
²^(C)I spread out my hands all the day
    to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
    following their own devices;
³a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
^(D)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;
⁴who sit in tombs,
    and spend the night in secret places;
^(E)who eat pig's flesh,
    and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
⁵who say, “Keep to yourself,
    do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
^(F)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that burns all the day.
⁶Behold, ^(G)it is written before me:
    ^(H)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
^(I)I will indeed repay into their lap
⁷    both your iniquities ^(J)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
^(K)because they made offerings on the mountains
    ^(L)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds.”^[b]

⁸Thus says the Lord:
^(M)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    ^(N)and not destroy them all.
⁹^(O)I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
    and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
    and my servants shall dwell there.
¹⁰^(P)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
    and ^(Q)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
    for my people ^(R)who have sought me.
¹¹But ^(S)you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget ^(T)my holy mountain,
who ^(U)set a table for Fortune
    and ^(V)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
¹²I will destine you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
^(W)because, when I called, you did not answer;
    when I spoke, you did not listen,
^(X)but you did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose what I did not delight in.”

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, ^(Y)my servants shall eat,
    but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;
¹⁴behold, ^(Z)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
¹⁵You shall leave your name to ^(AA)my chosen ^(AB)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants ^(AC)he will call by another name,
¹⁶so that he who ^(AD)blesses himself in the land
    shall bless himself by ^(AE)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by ^(AF)the God of truth;
^(AG)because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, ^(AH)I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(AI)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
¹⁹^(AJ)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(AK)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
²⁰No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for ^(AL)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(AM)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
²¹^(AN)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²^(AO)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(AP)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy^[c] the work of their hands.
²³^(AQ)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(AR)or bear children for calamity,^[d]
for ^(AS)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴^(AT)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(AU)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
²⁵^(AV)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(AW)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(AX)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.