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An Ideal King Establishes a Kingdom of Peace

11:1A shoot will grow out of Jesse’s1 root stock,

a bud will sprout2 from his roots.

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Isaiah 11:1: There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

Footnotes

  1. 1 The text mentions David’s father Jesse, instead of the great king himself. Perhaps this is done for rhetorical reasons to suggest that a new David, not just another disappointing Davidic descendant, will arise. Other prophets call the coming ideal Davidic king “David” or picture him as the second coming of David, as it were. See Jer 30:9; Ezek 34:23–24; 37:24–25; Hos 3:5; and Mic 5:2 (as well as the note there).
  2. 2 The Hebrew text has יִפְרֶה (yifreh, “will bear fruit,” from פָּרָה, parah), but the ancient versions, as well as the parallelism suggest that יִפְרַח (yifrakh, “will sprout”, from פָּרַח, parakh) is the better reading here. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (), 1:, n. 2.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;

from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

NLTNew Living Translation

Out of the stump of David’s family will grow a shoot—

yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

and a branch from its roots will bear fruit.

KJV 1900King James Version

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,

And a Branch shall grow out of his roots: