Isaiah 11
Lexham English Bible
The Branch’s Righteous Reign
11 And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from its roots will bear fruit.
2 And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him—
a spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a spirit of counsel and might,
a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.
3 And his breath[a] is in the fear of Yahweh.
And he shall judge not by his eyesight,
and he shall rebuke not by what he hears with[b] his ears.
4 But he shall judge the poor with righteousness,
and he shall decide for the needy of the earth with rectitude.
And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and he shall kill the wicked person with the breath of his lips.
5 And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,
and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
6 And a wolf shall stay[c] with a lamb,
and a leopard shall lie down with a kid,
and a calf and a lion and a fatling together
as a small boy leads[d] them.
7 And a cow and a bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together.
And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.
8 And an infant[e] shall play over a serpent’s hole,
and a toddler[f] shall put his hand on a viper’s hole.
9 They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my holy mountain,[g]
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
as the waters cover the sea.
10 And this shall happen on that day:
the nations shall inquire of the root of Jesse,
which shall be standing as a signal to the peoples,
and his resting place shall be glorious.
The Regathered Remnant
11 And this shall happen on that day:
The Lord will again extend his hand a second time
to acquire the remnant of his people that is left,
from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea,
12 and he will raise a signal for the nations.
And he will gather the outcasts of Israel,
and he will gather the scattered ones of Judah together from the four corners[h] of the earth.
13 And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off.
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim.
14 But they shall swoop[i] upon the Philistine shoulder,[j] westward.[k]
Together they shall plunder the sons of the east.
Edom and Moab will be under their command,[l]
and the sons of Ammon will be their subjugated people.
15 And Yahweh will divide[m] the tongue[n] of the sea of Egypt,[o]
and he will wave his hand over the river[p] with his scorching wind;
and he will strike it into seven streams,
and he will make it passable by foot.[q]
16 So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains,
as there was for Israel when[r] it went up from the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 11:3 Hebrew “smelling,” perhaps metaphorically as “delight” as in Amos 5:14; perhaps this line was accidentally copied twice from the preceding line
- Isaiah 11:3 Literally “the rumors of”
- Isaiah 11:6 Literally “dwell as an alien”
- Isaiah 11:6 Literally “and a small boy leading”
- Isaiah 11:8 Literally “one nursing”
- Isaiah 11:8 Literally “one who is weaned”
- Isaiah 11:9 Literally “mountain of holiness”
- Isaiah 11:12 Literally “wings”
- Isaiah 11:14 Literally “fly”
- Isaiah 11:14 That is, the hill country west of Judah
- Isaiah 11:14 Literally “sea”
- Isaiah 11:14 Literally “the stretching of their hand”
- Isaiah 11:15 Or “utterly destroy”
- Isaiah 11:15 Probably the “gulf”
- Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Red Sea
- Isaiah 11:15 That is, the Euphrates River
- Isaiah 11:15 Literally “cause to walk with the sandal”
- Isaiah 11:16 Literally “in the day”
以赛亚书 11
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
大卫的后裔做王
11 就像树墩上长出新的枝条，
大卫的后裔中必有一人做王。
2 耶和华的灵必住在他身上，
使他有聪明和智慧、谋略和能力，
能认识并敬畏耶和华。
3 他必以敬畏耶和华为乐。
他不凭眼见施行审判，
不凭耳闻断定是非，
4 而是按公义审判贫穷人，
以公正为受苦者断案。
他必用口中的杖击打世界，
以嘴里的气杀戮恶人。
5 公义必作他的腰带，
信实必作他肋下的带子。
6 那时，豺狼和绵羊羔同住，
豹子和山羊羔同卧，
牛犊和狮子同群，
小孩子可以照看它们。
7 牛与熊一起吃喝，
小牛和小熊一起躺卧，
狮子像牛一样吃草。
8 吃奶的婴孩在毒蛇的洞口玩耍，
断奶的孩子把手伸进蛇洞。
9 在我的整个圣山上，
它们都不伤人、不害物。
认识耶和华的人必充满天下，
就像水充满海洋一样。
10 到那日，耶西的根必成为引导万民的旗帜，外族人都来寻求他，他的住处充满荣耀。 11 到那日，主必再次伸手从亚述、埃及、巴特罗、古实、以拦、示拿、哈马和众海岛救回祂剩余的子民。
12 祂必向各国竖立旗帜，
召集被掳的以色列人，
把分散在世界各地的犹大人聚集起来。
13 以色列必不再嫉妒犹大，
犹大必不再与以色列为敌，
以色列的嫉妒和犹大的敌意必烟消云散。
14 他们必联合起来，
向西征讨非利士，
向东征服以东、摩押和亚扪。
15 耶和华必使埃及的海干涸，
挥手用焦热的风使幼发拉底河分成七条溪流，
使人可以涉水而过。
16 祂剩余的子民必沿着大路从亚述归回，
就像昔日以色列人离开埃及一样。
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