Isaiah 11:6-7
International Standard Version
A Transformed Ecology
6 “The wolf will live with the lamb;
the leopard will lie down with the young goat.
The calf and the lion will graze[a] together,
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze,
and[b] their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 11:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lion and the fattened calf
- Isaiah 11:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
Isaiah 12:2-6
International Standard Version
2 “Look! God—yes God—is[a] my salvation;
I will trust, and not be afraid.
For the Lord[b] is my strength and my song,[c]
and he has become my salvation.”
3 You will draw water joyfully from the wells of salvation. And you will say at that time:[d]
4 “Give thanks to the Lord;
call on his name.
Make known his actions
among the nations.
Proclaim that his name is exalted.
5 “Sing praises to the Lord,[e]
because he has acted gloriously,
being made[f] known in all the world.
6 Shout aloud, and sing for joy,
you who live in Zion,
because great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 12:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Look! God is; LXX reads Look! The Lord is the God of
- Isaiah 12:2 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; MT reads Lord God
- Isaiah 12:2 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; MT reads a song
- Isaiah 12:3 Lit. say in that day
- Isaiah 12:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to the Lord; LXX reads to the name of the Lord
- Isaiah 12:5 So Isaa MTqere Syr Targ; the Heb. lacks made
Luke 2:1-7
International Standard Version
The Birth of Jesus(A)
2 Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.
4 Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant[a] of the household and family of David. 5 He went there[b] to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.
6 While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, 7 and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.
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