[1] There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch
shall grow out of his roots. [2] And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and
might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. [3] And his
delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his
eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear; [4] but with righteousness he
shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and
he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of
his lips he shall slay the wicked. [5] Righteousness shall be the girdle of
his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. [6] The wolf shall
dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the
calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead
them. [7] The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down
together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. [8] The sucking child
shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his
hand on the adder's den. [9] They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the
waters cover the sea. [10] In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an
ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall
be glorious. [11] In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second
time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from
Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath,
and from the coastlands of the sea. [12] He will raise an ensign for the
nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed
of Judah from the four corners of the earth. [13] The jealousy of E'phraim
shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; E'phraim shall
not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass E'phraim. [14] But they
shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and
together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth
their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them. [15]
And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and will
wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind, and smite it into
seven channels that men may cross dryshod. [16] And there will be a highway
from Assyria for the remnant which is left of his people, as there was for
Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
