11:1 AND THERE shall come forth a Shoot out of the stock of Jesse [David's father], and a Branch out of his roots shall grow {and} bear fruit. |
11:2 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 of the reverential {and} obedient fear of the Lord-- |
11:3 And shall make Him of quick understanding, {and} His delight shall be in the reverential {and} obedient fear of the Lord. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, neither decide by the hearing of His ears; |
11:4 But with righteousness {and} justice shall He judge the poor and decide with fairness for the meek, the poor, {and} the downtrodden of the earth; and He shall smite the earth {and} the oppressor with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. |
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist and faithfulness the girdle of His loins. |
11:6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them. |
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed side by side, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. |
11:8 And the sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. |
11:9 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. |
11:10 And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire {and} seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]! |
11:11 And in that day the Lord shall again lift up His hand a second time to recover (acquire and deliver) the remnant of His people which is left, from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Upper Syria], and from the countries bordering on the [Mediterranean] Sea. |
11:12 And He will raise up a signal for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and will gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. |
11:13 The envy {and} jealousy of Ephraim also shall depart, and they who vex {and} harass Judah from outside {or} inside shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex {and} harass Ephraim. |
11:14 But [with united forces Ephraim and Judah] will swoop down upon the shoulders of the Philistines' [land sloping] toward the west; together they will strip the people on the east [the Arabs]. They will lay their hands upon Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will obey them. |
11:15 And the Lord will utterly destroy (doom and dry up) the tongue of the Egyptian sea [the west fork of the Red Sea]; and with His [mighty] scorching wind He will wave His hand over the river [Nile] and will smite it into seven channels and will cause men to cross over dry-shod. |
11:16 And there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant left of His people, as there was for Israel when they came up out of the land of Egypt. |