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The Peaceful Kingdom

11 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,
    and a branch shall grow[a] out of his roots.(A)
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,
    the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the spirit of counsel and might,
    the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.(B)
His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see
    or decide by what his ears hear,(C)
but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor
    and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.(D)
Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist
    and faithfulness the belt around his loins.(E)

The wolf shall live with the lamb;
    the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
the calf and the lion will feed[b] together,
    and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
    and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.
They will not hurt or destroy
    on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.1 Cn Compare Syr: Heb bear fruit
  2. 11.6 Q ms Gk Syr: MT and the fatted calf

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.
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.
    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.
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.
And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,
    and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
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.
And a cow and a bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together.
    And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.
And an infant[e] shall play over a serpent’s hole,
    and a toddler[f] shall put his hand on a viper’s hole.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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
  2. Isaiah 11:3 Literally “the rumors of”
  3. Isaiah 11:6 Literally “dwell as an alien”
  4. Isaiah 11:6 Literally “and a small boy leading”
  5. Isaiah 11:8 Literally “one nursing”
  6. Isaiah 11:8 Literally “one who is weaned”
  7. Isaiah 11:9 Literally “mountain of holiness”