Isaiah
11:1-16
[1] And a
Rod shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Sprout from his roots
shall bear fruit.
[2] The
Spirit of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of יהוה,
[3] and shall make
Him breathe in the fear of יהוה. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by
the hearing of His ears.
[4] But with
righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for
the meek ones of the earth, and shall smite the earth with the rod of His
mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips.
[5] And righteousness
shall be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist.
[6] And a wolf shall
dwell with the lamb, and a leopard lie down with the young goat, and the calf
and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child leads them.
[7] And cow and bear
shall feed, their young ones lie down together, and a lion eat straw like an
ox.
[8] And the nursing
child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand
in the adder’s den.
[9] They do no evil
nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain, for the earth shall be filled with
the knowledge of יהוה as the waters cover the sea1.
Footnote: 1Hab. 2:14.
[10] And in that day
there shall be a Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him
the gentiles1 shall seek, and His
rest shall be esteem. Footnote: 1Or nations.
[11] And it shall be
in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His
people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shinʽar, from Ḥamath
and from the islands of the sea.
[12] And He shall
raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, and
assemble the dispersed of Yehuḏah
from the four corners of the earth.
[13] And the envy of
Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.
[14] But they shall
fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they
plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏom and Mo’aḇ, and the children of Ammon shall
be subject to them.
[15] And יהוה shall put under the ban the tongue of the Sea of Mitsrayim,
and He shall wave His hand over the River with the might of His Spirit, and
shall smite it in the seven streams, and shall cause men to tread it in
sandals.
[16] And there shall
be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was
for Yisra’ĕl in the day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim.
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