Isaiah 11:1-9

World English Bible

11 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
    and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
² Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him:
    the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the spirit of counsel and might,
    the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
³ His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh.
He will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
    neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
⁴ but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
    and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
    and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
⁵ Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
    and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

⁶ The wolf will live with the lamb,
    and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
    the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷ The cow and the bear will graze.
    Their young ones will lie down together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
    and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
⁹ They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain;
    for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh,
    as the waters cover the sea.