Isaiah 11:1–9

The Branch’s Righteous Reign

11And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from its roots will bear fruit.

²And 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.

³And 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.

⁴But 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.

⁵And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,

and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

⁶And 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.

⁷And a cow and a bear shall graze;

their young shall lie down together.

And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.

⁸And an infant^e shall play over a serpent’s hole,

and a toddler^f shall put his hand on a viper’s hole.

⁹They 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.