Isaiah 11

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.