Isaiah 11–13

Chapter 11

Righteous Reign of the Branch

¹Then a ^ashoot will spring from the ^bstem of Jesse,

And a ^cbranch from ^dhis roots will bear fruit.

²The ^aSpirit of the Lord will rest on Him,

The spirit of ^bwisdom and understanding,

The spirit of counsel and ^cstrength,

The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

³And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,

And He will not judge by what His eyes ^asee,

Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

⁴But with ^arighteousness He will judge the ^bpoor,

And decide with fairness for the ^cafflicted of the earth;

And He will strike the earth with the ^drod of His mouth,

And with the ^ebreath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

⁵Also ^arighteousness will be the belt about His loins,

And ^bfaithfulness the belt about His waist.

⁶And the ^awolf will dwell with the lamb,

And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,

And the calf and the young lion ¹and the fatling together;

And a little boy will lead them.

⁷Also the cow and the bear will graze,

Their young will lie down together,

And the ^alion will eat straw like the ox.

⁸The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,

And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

⁹They will ^anot hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,

For the ^bearth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord

As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰Then in that day

The ^anations will resort to the ^broot of Jesse,

Who will stand as a ^1csignal for the peoples;

And His ^dresting place will be ²glorious.

The Restored Remnant

¹¹Then it will happen on that day that the Lord

Will again recover the second time with His hand

The ^aremnant of His people, who will remain,

From ^bAssyria, ^cEgypt, Pathros, Cush, ^dElam, Shinar, Hamath,

And from the ^1eislands of the sea.

¹²And He will lift up a ^astandard for the nations

And ^bassemble the banished ones of Israel,

And will gather the dispersed of Judah

From the four corners of the earth.

¹³Then the ^ajealousy of Ephraim will depart,

And those who harass Judah will be cut off;

Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,

And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

¹⁴They will ^aswoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the ^bwest;

Together they will ^cplunder the sons of the east;

¹They will possess ^dEdom and ^eMoab,

And the sons of Ammon will be ²subject to them.

¹⁵And the Lord will ^1autterly destroy

The tongue of the ²Sea of Egypt;

And He will ^bwave His hand over the ^3cRiver

With His scorching wind;

And He will strike it into seven streams

And make men walk over ⁴dry-shod.

¹⁶And there will be a ^ahighway from Assyria

For the ^bremnant of His people who will be left,

Just as there was for Israel

In ^cthe day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

Chapter 12

Thanksgiving Expressed

¹Then you will say on that day,

“^aI will give thanks to You, O Lord;

For ^balthough You were angry with me,

Your anger is turned away,

And You comfort me.

²“Behold, ^aGod is my salvation,

I will ^btrust and not be afraid;

For ^cthe Lord God is my strength and song,

And He has become my salvation.”

³Therefore you will joyously ^adraw water

From the ^bsprings of salvation.

⁴And in that day you will ^asay,

“^bGive thanks to the Lord, call on His name.

^cMake known His deeds among the peoples;

¹Make them remember that His name is exalted.”

^5aPraise the Lord in song, for He has done ¹excellent things;

Let this be known throughout the earth.

^6aCry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For ^bgreat in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Chapter 13

Prophecies about Babylon

¹The ^1aoracle concerning ^bBabylon which ^cIsaiah the son of Amoz saw.

^2aLift up a standard on the ^1bbare hill,

Raise your voice to them,

^cWave the hand that they may ^denter the doors of the nobles.

³I have commanded My consecrated ones,

I have even called My ^amighty warriors,

My proudly exulting ones,

To execute My anger.

⁴A ^asound of tumult on the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A sound of the uproar of kingdoms,

Of nations gathered together!

The Lord of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

⁵They are coming from a far country,

From the ^1afarthest horizons,

The Lord and His instruments of ^bindignation,

To ^cdestroy the whole land.

Judgment on the Day of the Lord

⁶Wail, for the ^aday of the Lord is near!

It will come as ^bdestruction from ¹the Almighty.

⁷Therefore ^aall hands will fall limp,

And every man’s ^bheart will melt.

⁸They will be ^aterrified,

Pains and anguish will take hold of them;

They will ^bwrithe like a woman in labor,

They will look at one another in astonishment,

Their faces aflame.

⁹Behold, ^athe day of the Lord is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger,

To make the land a desolation;

And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

¹⁰For the ^astars of heaven and their constellations

Will not flash forth their light;

The ^bsun will be dark when it rises

And the moon will not shed its light.

¹¹Thus I will ^apunish the world for its evil

And the ^bwicked for their iniquity;

I will also put an end to the ^carrogance of the proud

And abase the ^dhaughtiness of the ^1eruthless.

¹²I will make mortal man ^1ascarcer than pure gold

And mankind than the ^bgold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will make the ^aheavens tremble,

And ^bthe earth will be shaken from its place

At the fury of the Lord of hosts

In ^cthe day of His burning anger.

¹⁴And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,

Or like ^asheep with none to gather them,

They will each turn to his own people,

And each one flee to his own land.

¹⁵Anyone who is found will be ^athrust through,

And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their ^alittle ones also will be dashed to pieces

Before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives ravished.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

¹⁷Behold, I am going to ^astir up the Medes against them,

Who will not value silver or ^btake pleasure in gold.

¹⁸And their bows will ¹mow down the ^ayoung men,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their ^beye pity ²children.

¹⁹And ^aBabylon, the ^bbeauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be as when God ^coverthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰It will ^anever be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

Nor will the ^bArab pitch his tent there,

Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

²¹But ^adesert creatures will lie down there,

And their houses will be full of ¹owls;

Ostriches also will live there, and ²shaggy goats will frolic there.

²²¹Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers

And jackals in their luxurious ^apalaces.

Her fateful time also ²will soon come

And her days will not be prolonged.