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Isaiah 11
1 “A shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will bear fruit from his roots.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
3 His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He won’t judge by what his eyes see, nor decide disputes by what his ears hear,
4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for a earth’s poor. b He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, c and the wicked will be killed d with the breath of his lips.
5 Righteousness will be the sash around his loins, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.”
6 “The wolf will live with the lamb; the leopard will lie down with the young goat. The calf and the lion will graze e together, and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze, and f their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers’ dens. g
9 They will neither harm nor destroy on h my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge i of the LORD, j as the waters cover the sea.”
10 At that time, k as to l the root of Jesse, who will be standing as a banner for the peoples, the nations will rally to him, and his resting place is m glorious.
11 At that time, n the LORD will reach out his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, o from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands p of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations and will assemble the dispersed of Israel; he will gather the scattered people of Judah from the corners q of the earth.
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, r and those who are hostile to Judah will be eliminated; s Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not be hostile to Ephraim.
14 But they t will swoop down on the slopes u of the Philistines to the west, and they will plunder v the people to w the east. They’ll lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
15 The LORD will totally destroy the gulf x of the Sea of Egypt. He will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River with a violent wind, y breaking it up into seven streams, and making a way for people to cross on foot.
16 And there will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people out of Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.