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but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
    and decide with equity for[a] earth’s poor.[b]
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,[c]
    and the wicked will be killed[d] with the breath of his lips.
Righteousness will be the sash around his loins,
    and faithfulness the belt around his waist.”

A Transformed Ecology

“The wolf will live with the lamb;
    the leopard will lie down with the young goat.
The calf and the lion will graze[e] together,
    and a little child will lead them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read for the
  2. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read humble
  3. Isaiah 11:4 I.e. by pronouncing judgment
  4. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector MT LXX read he will kill the wicked
  5. Isaiah 11:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lion and the fattened calf