The Root of Jesse
1 A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse,
and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him:
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
3 His delight will be in the fear of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees,
nor decide by what he hears,
4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness
and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be the belt of his hips
and faithfulness the sash of his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze.
Their young ones will lie down together.
The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole,
and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will neither hurt nor destroy anyone on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea.
10 It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples, and his resting place will be glorious. 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 He will set up a banner for the nations
and will assemble the outcasts of Israel
and gather together the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim will depart,
and those who persecute Judah will be cut off.
Ephraim will not envy Judah,
and Judah will not persecute Ephraim.
14 They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west.
Together they will plunder the children of the east.
They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,
and the children of Ammon will obey them.
15 The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea,
and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River,
and will split it into seven streams,
and cause men to march over in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant
that is left of his people from Assyria,
like there was for Israel on the day
that he came up out of the land of Egypt.