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11 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
    and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
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.
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;
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.
Righteousness will be the belt of his waist,
    and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

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.
The cow and the bear will graze.
    Their young ones will lie down together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
    and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
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.

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The Reign of the Davidic King

11 “A shoot will come out
    from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch will bear fruit
    from his roots.
The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him,
    the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and power,
    the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
His delight will be in the fear of the Lord.
    He won’t judge by what his eyes see,
        nor decide disputes by what his ears hear,
but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
    and decide with equity for[a] earth’s poor.[b]
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,[c]
    and the wicked will be killed[d] with the breath of his lips.
Righteousness will be the sash around his loins,
    and faithfulness the belt around his waist.”

A Transformed Ecology

“The wolf will live with the lamb;
    the leopard will lie down with the young goat.
The calf and the lion will graze[e] together,
    and a little child will lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze,
    and[f] their young will lie down together,
        and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will play
    over the hole of the cobra,
        and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers’ dens.[g]
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on[h] my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full
    of the knowledge[i] of the Lord,[j]
        as the waters cover the sea.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read for the
  2. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read humble
  3. Isaiah 11:4 I.e. by pronouncing judgment
  4. Isaiah 11:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector MT LXX read he will kill the wicked
  5. Isaiah 11:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lion and the fattened calf
  6. Isaiah 11:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
  7. Isaiah 11:8 So 1QIsaa; MT reads a viper’s den; LXX reads a den of vipers
  8. Isaiah 11:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsac MT read on all
  9. Isaiah 11:9 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read to know
  10. Isaiah 11:9 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsac reads of glory; cf. Hab 2:14