Isaiah 11

International Standard Version

11 “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.”

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.