Isaiah 11

Righteous Reign of the Branch

1 Then a ^ashoot will spring from the ^bstem of Jesse,
And a ^cBranch from ^dhis roots will bear fruit.
2 The ^eSpirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of ^fwisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and ^gstrength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes ^hsee,
Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
4 But with ⁱrighteousness He will judge the ^jpoor,
And decide with fairness for the ^khumble of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the ^lrod of His mouth,
And with the ^mbreath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Also ⁿrighteousness will be the belt around His hips,
And ^ofaithfulness the belt around His waist.

6 And the ^pwolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion ▼

▼Some ancient versions will feed together

and the fattened steer will be together;
And a little boy will lead them.
7 Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the ^rlion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will ^snot hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the ^tearth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.

10 Then on that day
The ^unations will resort to the ^vroot of Jesse,
Who will stand as a ^wsignal flag for the peoples;
And His ^xresting place will be ▼

▼Lit glory

glorious.

The Restored Remnant

11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover with His hand the second time
The ^zremnant of His people who will remain,
From ^aaAssyria, ^abEgypt, Pathros, Cush, ^acElam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the ▼

▼Or coastlands

, ^aeislands of the sea.
12 And He will lift up a ^afflag for the nations
And ^agassemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Then the ^ahjealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be eliminated;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
14 They will ^aiswoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the ^ajwest;
Together they will ^akplunder the ▼

▼Lit sons

people of the east;
▼

▼Lit Edom and Moab will be the outstretching of their hand

They will possess ^anEdom and ^aoMoab,
And the sons of Ammon will be ▼

▼Lit their obedience

subject to them.
15 And the Lord will ▼

▼Another reading is dry up the tongue

, ^arutterly destroy
The tongue of the ▼

▼Perhaps the Red Sea

Sea of Egypt;
And He will ^atwave His hand over the ^auEuphrates River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make people walk over in dry sandals.
16 And there will be a ^avhighway from Assyria
For the ^awremnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
On ^axthe day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.