Isaiah 11
1 aRom. 15. 12.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall
come up from his root:
2 and the Spirit of God shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;
3 the spirit of the fear of God. He
shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:
4 but he shall judge the cause of the
lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy
the ungodly one. 5 And he shall have
his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.
6 And the wolf shall feed with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull
and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the ox and bear shall feed
together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox. 8 And an infant shall put his
hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.
9 And they shall not hurt, nor shall
they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole
world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as
much water
bGr. may cover.covers the seas. 10 And in that day
cRom. 15. 12.
there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the
Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall be in that day,
that the Lord shall again shew his hand, to be
zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the
Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country
of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of
the sun, and out of Arabia. 12 And he
shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of
Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the
earth. 13 And the envy of Ephraim
shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not
envy Juda, and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim.
14 And they shall fly in the ships of
the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the
dsc. the west.sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea:
and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall
first obey them.
15 And the Lord shall make desolate
the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind,
and he shall
eq. d. form by smiting.smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.
16 And there shall be a passage for
my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he
came forth out of the land of Egypt.