And there shall
come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a
Branch shall grow out of his roots:
02 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 fear of the Lord;
03 And shall make him of quick understanding in
the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove
after the hearing of his ears:
04 But with righteousness shall he judge the
poor, and reprove 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
shall he slay the wicked.
05 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
06 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the
calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.
07 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together: and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox.
08 And the sucking child shall play on the hole
of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his
hand on the cockatrice' den.
09 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the
sea.
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10 And in that day there shall be a root of
Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the
people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his
rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the Lord shall set his hand again the second time
to recover the remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from
Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of
the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall 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 shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim
shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex
Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the
Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil
them of the east together: they shall lay their
hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them.
15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue
of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind
shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall
smite it in the seven streams, and make men go
over dryshod.
16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant
of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria;
like as it was to Israel in the day that he came
up out of the land of Egypt.
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