Isaiah 11–13

11And there shall come forth ^aa rod out of ^bthe stem of ^cJesse,

And ^da Branch shall grow out of ^ehis roots:

²And ^fthe spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

^gThe spirit of wisdom and understanding,

The spirit of counsel and might,

The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

³And shall make him of ^†quick understanding in the fear of the Lord:

And ^hhe shall not judge after ⁱthe sight of his eyes,

Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

⁴But ^kwith righteousness shall he judge the poor,

And ^||reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:

And he shall ^lsmite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

And ^mwith the breath of his lips ⁿshall he slay the wicked.

⁵And ^orighteousness ^pshall be the girdle of his loins,

And faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

^6qThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

And ^rthe leopard shall lie down with the kid;

And the calf and ^rrthe young lion and the fatling together;

And a little child shall lead them.

⁷And the cow and the bear shall feed;

Their young ones shall lie down together:

And ^qsthe lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸And the sucking child shall play on the hole of ^ssthe asp,

And the weaned child shall put his hand on the ^||cockatrice’ den.

^9qtThey shall not hurt nor destroy in all ^umy holy mountain:

^vFor the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,

As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰And ^win that day ^xthere shall be ^ya root of Jesse,

Which shall stand for ^zan ensign of the people;

To it shall the Gentiles seek:

And ^ahis rest shall be ^†glorious.

¹¹And it shall come to pass ^win that day,

That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time

To recover the remnant of his people,

^aaWhich shall be left, ^bfrom Assyria,

And ^bfrom Egypt, and from ^cPathros,

And from ^dCush, and from ^eElam, and from ^fShinar,

And from ^gHamath, and from ^hthe islands of the sea.

¹²And ⁱhe shall set up ^jan ensign for the nations,

And shall assemble ^kthe outcasts of Israel,

And ^lgather together ^mthe dispersed of Judah

From the four ^†corners of the earth.

¹³ⁿThe envy also of Ephraim shall depart,

And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off:

Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

¹⁴But they shall fly upon ^othe shoulders of ^pthe Philistines toward the west;

They shall spoil ^†them of the east together:

^q†They shall lay their hand upon ^rEdom and ^sMoab;

^qAnd ^†the children of ^stAmmon ^ushall obey them.

¹⁵And the Lord ^vshall utterly destroy ^xthe tongue of the Egyptian sea;

And with his mighty wind shall he ^yshake his hand over ^zthe river,

And shall smite it in the seven streams,

And ^amake men go over ^†dryshod.

¹⁶And ^bthere shall be ^can highway for the remnant of his people,

^dWhich shall be left, from Assyria;

^eLike as it was to Israel

In the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

12And ^ain that day thou shalt say,

O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

²Behold, ^bGod is my salvation;

I will trust, and not be afraid:

For the ^cLord JEHOVAH is my ^dstrength and my song;

He also is become my salvation.

³Therefore ^ewith joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

⁴And ^ain that day shall ye say,

^fPraise the Lord, ^||fcall upon his name,

^fgDeclare his doings among the people,

Make mention that ^hhis name is ⁱexalted.

^5kSing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things:

This is known in all the earth.

^6lCry out and ^lmshout, thou ^†inhabitant of Zion:

For great is ⁿthe Holy One of Israel ^oin the midst of thee.

13^*The ^aburden of ^bBabylon, ^cwhich Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

^2dLift ye up a banner ^eupon the ^fhigh mountain,

Exalt the voice unto them, ^gshake the hand,

That they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³I have commanded ^hmy sanctified ones,

I have also called ⁱmy mighty ones for mine anger,

Even them ^kthat ^lrejoice in my highness.

⁴The noise of ^la multitude in the mountains, ^†like as of a great people;

^lA tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together:

The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

^5mThey come from a far country, from the end of heaven,

Even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation,

ⁿTo destroy the whole land.

^6oHowl ye; ^pqfor the day of the Lord is at hand;

^qIt shall come ^ras a destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore shall all hands ^||be faint,

And every man’s ^sheart shall melt:

⁸And they shall be afraid: ^tpangs and ^usorrows shall take hold of them;

^uvThey shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:

They shall ^†be amazed ^†one at another;

Their faces shall be as ^†flames.

⁹Behold, ^wthe day of the Lord cometh,

Cruel both with ^xwrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate:

And ^xxhe shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and ^ythe constellations thereof shall not ^zgive their light:

^aThe sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

And ^athe moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹And I will ^bpunish the world for their evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

And I will ^ccause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

And will ^dlay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

^12eI will make a man ^fmore precious than ^gfine gold;

Even a man than ^hthe golden wedge of Ophir.

¹³Therefore ⁱI will shake the heavens,

And ⁱthe earth shall remove out of her place,

In ^jthe wrath of the Lord of hosts,

And ^kin the day of his ^jfierce anger.

¹⁴And it shall be as the chased roe,

And as a sheep that no man taketh up:

^lThey shall every man turn to his own people,

And flee every one into his own land.

¹⁵Every one that is found ^mshall be thrust through;

And every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ⁿTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

^oTheir houses shall be spoiled, and ^otheir wives ravished.

¹⁷Behold, ^pI will stir up ^qthe Medes against them,

^rWhich shall not regard silver;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

^18sTheir bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;

And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;

^tTheir eye shall not spare children.

¹⁹And Babylon, ^uthe glory of kingdoms,

^uThe beauty of ^vthe Chaldees’ ^uexcellency,

^wShall be ^†as ^xwhen God overthrew ^ySodom and Gomorrah.

^20zIt shall never be inhabited,

Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:

Neither shall ^athe Arabian pitch tent there;

Neither shall the shepherds ^bmake their fold there.

^21cBut ^†dwild beasts of the desert shall lie there;

And their houses shall be full of ^†doleful creatures;

And ^||†dowls shall dwell there,

And ^desatyrs shall dance there.

²²And ^†dthe wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their ^||fdesolate houses,

And ^gdragons in their ^hpleasant ⁱpalaces:

And ^kher time is near to come,

And her days shall not be prolonged.