Isaiah 11

The Peaceful Kingdom

¹¹A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch shall growⁿ out of his roots.^*

²The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him,

the spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the spirit of counsel and might,

the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.^*

³His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see

or decide by what his ears hear,^*

⁴but with righteousness he shall judge for the poor

and decide with equity for the oppressed of the earth;

he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.^*

⁵Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist

and faithfulness the belt around his loins.^*

⁶The wolf shall live with the lamb;

the leopard shall lie down with the kid;

the calf and the lion will feed^o together,

and a little child shall lead them.

⁷The cow and the bear shall graze;

their young shall lie down together;

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,

and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.

⁹They will not hurt or destroy

on all my holy mountain,

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord

as the waters cover the sea.^*

Return of the Remnant of Israel and Judah

¹⁰On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples; the nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious.^*

¹¹On that day the Lord will again raise^p his hand to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.^*

¹²He will raise a signal for the nations

and will assemble the outcasts of Israel

and gather the dispersed of Judah

from the four corners of the earth.^*

¹³The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart;

the hostility of Judah shall be cut off;

Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,

and Judah shall not be hostile toward Ephraim.^*

¹⁴But they shall swoop down on the backs of the Philistines in the west;

together they shall plunder the people of the east.

They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab,

and the Ammonites shall obey them.^*

¹⁵And the Lord will dry up^q

the tongue of the sea of Egypt

and will wave his hand over the River

with his scorching wind

and will split it into seven channels

and make a way to cross on foot;^*

¹⁶so there shall be a highway from Assyria

for the remnant that is left of his people,

as there was for Israel

when they came up from the land of Egypt.^*