The Branch From
Jesse
"11 A shoot will come up
from the stump
of Jesse;
from His roots a Branch
will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit
of the Lord
will rest on Him--
the Spirit of
wisdom
and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord--
3 and He
will delight in the fear
of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees
with His eyes,
or
decide by what He hears with His ears;
4 but with righteousness
He will judge the needy,
with
justice
He will give decisions for the poor
of the earth.
He will strike
the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with
the breath
of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be His belt
and
faithfulness
the sash around His waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the
leopard will lie down with the goat,
the
calf and the lion and the yearling
together;
and a little child
will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the
bear,
their young will lie
down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant
will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child
put his hand into the viper’s
nest.
9 They will neither harm nor
destroy
on
all my holy mountain,
for the earth
will be full of the knowledge
of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day
the Root of Jesse
will stand as a banner
for the peoples; the nations
will rally to Him,
and His place of rest
will be glorious.
11 In that day
the Lord will reach out His hand a second time to reclaim the remnant
that is left of His people from Assyria,
from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,
from Cush,
from Elam,
from Babylonia, from
Hamath
and from the islands
of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner
for the nations
and gather
the exiles of Israel;
He will assemble the scattered people
of Judah
from the four
quarters of the earth.
13
Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and
Judah’s enemiese will be
cut off;
Ephraim will not be
jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile
toward Ephraim.
14
They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia
to the west;
together they will
plunder the people to the east.
They will lay hands on Edom
and Moab,
and
the Ammonites
will be subject to them.
15
The Lord will dry up
the
gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a
scorching wind He will sweep his hand
over
the Euphrates River.
He will break it up into seven streams
so
that men can cross over in sandals.
16
There will be a highway
for the remnant
of His people
that is left from
Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when
they came up from Egypt."
Jesse
"11 A shoot will come up
from the stump
of Jesse;
from His roots a Branch
will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit
of the Lord
will rest on Him--
the Spirit of
wisdom
and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord--
3 and He
will delight in the fear
of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees
with His eyes,
or
decide by what He hears with His ears;
4 but with righteousness
He will judge the needy,
with
justice
He will give decisions for the poor
of the earth.
He will strike
the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with
the breath
of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be His belt
and
faithfulness
the sash around His waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the
leopard will lie down with the goat,
the
calf and the lion and the yearling
together;
and a little child
will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the
bear,
their young will lie
down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant
will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child
put his hand into the viper’s
nest.
9 They will neither harm nor
destroy
on
all my holy mountain,
for the earth
will be full of the knowledge
of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day
the Root of Jesse
will stand as a banner
for the peoples; the nations
will rally to Him,
and His place of rest
will be glorious.
11 In that day
the Lord will reach out His hand a second time to reclaim the remnant
that is left of His people from Assyria,
from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,
from Cush,
from Elam,
from Babylonia, from
Hamath
and from the islands
of the sea.
12 He will raise a banner
for the nations
and gather
the exiles of Israel;
He will assemble the scattered people
of Judah
from the four
quarters of the earth.
13
Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and
Judah’s enemiese will be
cut off;
Ephraim will not be
jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile
toward Ephraim.
14
They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia
to the west;
together they will
plunder the people to the east.
They will lay hands on Edom
and Moab,
and
the Ammonites
will be subject to them.
15
The Lord will dry up
the
gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a
scorching wind He will sweep his hand
over
the Euphrates River.
He will break it up into seven streams
so
that men can cross over in sandals.
16
There will be a highway
for the remnant
of His people
that is left from
Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when
they came up from Egypt."