Isaiah 11-14

New American Standard Bible

11 Then a ^(A)shoot will spring from the ^(B)stem of Jesse,
And a ^(C)Branch from ^(D)his roots will bear fruit.
² The ^(E)Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of ^(F)wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and ^(G)strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³ And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes ^(H)see,
Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
⁴ But with ^(I)righteousness He will judge the ^(J)poor,
And decide with fairness for the ^(K)humble of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the ^(L)rod of His mouth,
And with the ^(M)breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
⁵ Also ^(N)righteousness will be the belt around His hips,
And ^(O)faithfulness the belt around His waist.

¹¹ Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover with His hand the second time
The ^(X)remnant of His people who will remain,
From ^(Y)Assyria, ^(Z)Egypt, Pathros, Cush, ^(AA)Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the ^[c](AB)islands of the sea.
¹² And He will lift up a ^(AC)flag for the nations
And ^(AD)assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
¹³ Then the ^(AE)jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be eliminated;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
¹⁴ They will ^(AF)swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the ^(AG)west;
Together they will ^(AH)plunder the ^[d]people of the east;
^[e]They will possess ^(AI)Edom and ^(AJ)Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be ^[f]subject to them.
¹⁵ And the Lord will ^[g](AK)utterly destroy
The tongue of the ^[h]Sea of Egypt;
And He will ^(AL)wave His hand over the ^(AM)Euphrates River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make people walk over in dry sandals.
¹⁶ And there will be a ^(AN)highway from Assyria
For the ^(AO)remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
On ^(AP)the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

12 Then you will say on that day,
“^(AQ)I will give thanks to You, Lord;
For although ^(AR)You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.
² Behold, ^(AS)God is my salvation,
I will ^(AT)trust and not be afraid;
For ^(AU)the Lord God is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.”
³ Therefore you will joyously ^(AV)draw water
From the ^(AW)springs of salvation.
⁴ And on that day you will ^(AX)say,
“^(AY)Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name.
^(AZ)Make known His deeds among the peoples;
^[i]Make them remember that His name is exalted.”
^5 (BA)Praise the Lord in song, for He has done ^[j]glorious things;
Let this be known throughout the earth.
^6 (BB)Rejoice and shout for joy, you inhabitant of Zion,
For ^(BC)great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

^2 (BG)Lift up a flag on the ^[k](BH)bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
^(BI)Wave the hand that they may ^(BJ)enter the doors of the nobles.
³ I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have also called for My ^(BK)warriors
Who boast in My eminence,
To execute My anger.
⁴ A ^(BL)sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.
⁵ They are coming from a distant country,
From the ^[l](BM)farthest horizons,
The Lord and the weapons of His ^(BN)indignation,
To ^(BO)destroy the whole land.

⁶ Wail, for the ^(BP)day of the Lord is near!
It will come as ^(BQ)destruction from ^[m]the Almighty.
⁷ Therefore ^(BR)all hands will fall limp,
And every human ^(BS)heart will melt.
⁸ They will be ^(BT)terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will ^(BU)writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
⁹ Behold, ^(BV)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
¹⁰ For the ^(BW)stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash their light;
The ^(BX)sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
¹¹ So I will ^(BY)punish the world for its evil
And the ^(BZ)wicked for their wrongdoing;
I will also put an end to the ^(CA)audacity of the proud
And humiliate the ^(CB)arrogance of the ^[n](CC)tyrants.
¹² I will make mortal man ^(CD)scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the ^(CE)gold of Ophir.
¹³ Therefore I will make the ^(CF)heavens tremble,
And ^(CG)the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of armies
In ^(CH)the day of His burning anger.
¹⁴ And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,
Or like ^(CI)sheep with no one to gather them,
Each of them will turn to his own people,
And each of them will flee to his own land.
¹⁵ Anyone who is found will be ^(CJ)thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
¹⁶ Their ^(CK)little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives raped.

¹⁷ Behold, I am going to ^(CL)stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or ^(CM)take pleasure in gold.
¹⁸ And their bows will ^[o]mow down the ^(CN)young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their ^(CO)eye pity ^[p]children.
¹⁹ And ^(CP)Babylon, the ^(CQ)beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God ^(CR)overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰ It will ^(CS)never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the ^(CT)Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
²¹ But ^(CU)desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of ^[q]owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and ^[r]shaggy goats will frolic there.
^22 [s]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious ^(CV)palaces.
Her fateful time also ^[t]will soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

“How ^(DD)the oppressor has ceased,
And how the ^[w]onslaught has ceased!
⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers,
^6 (DE)Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which ^[x]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
⁷ The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;
They ^(DF)break forth into shouts of joy.
⁸ Even the ^(DG)juniper trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you have been laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’
^9 (DH)Sheol below is excited about you, to meet you when you come;
It stirs the ^[y]spirits of the dead for you, all the ^[z]leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
^10 (DI)They will all respond and say to you,
‘Even you have become weak as we,
You have become like us.
¹¹ Your ^(DJ)pride and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
¹² How you have ^(DK)fallen from heaven,
You ^[aa](DL)star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who defeated the nations!
¹³ But you said in your heart,
‘I will ^(DM)ascend to heaven;
I will ^(DN)raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
^(DO)I will make myself like the Most High.’
¹⁵ Nevertheless you ^(DP)will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you,
They will ^[ab]closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ Who made the world like a ^(DQ)wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who ^(DR)did not ^[ac]allow his prisoners to go home?’
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own ^[ad]tomb.
¹⁹ But you have been ^(DS)hurled out of your tomb
Like ^[ae]a rejected branch,
^[af]Clothed with those killed who have been pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the ^(DT)pit
Like a ^(DU)trampled corpse.
²⁰ You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have killed your people.
May the ^(DV)descendants of evildoers never be mentioned.
²¹ Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
Because of the ^(DW)wrongdoing of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth,
And fill the surface of the world with cities.”

²⁹ “Do not rejoice, ^(EJ)Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that ^(EK)struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a ^(EL)viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a ^(EM)winged serpent.
^30 [ah]Those who are most ^(EN)helpless will eat,
And the poor will lie down in security;
I will kill your root with ^(EO)famine,
And it will kill your survivors.
³¹ Wail, you ^(EP)gate; cry, you city;
^[ai]Melt away, ^(EQ)Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes from the ^(ER)north,
And ^(ES)there is no straggler in his ranks.
³² What answer will one give the ^(ET)messengers of the nation?
That ^(EU)the Lord has founded Zion,
And ^(EV)the poor of His people will take refuge in it.”