1. But a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, A twig shall sprout from his stock.
2. The spirit of the LORD shall alight upon him: A spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit of devotion and reverence for the LORD.
3. He shall sense the truth by his reverence for the LORD: He shall not judge by what his eyes behold, Nor decide by what his ears perceive.
4. Thus he shall judge the poor with equity And decide with justice for the lowly of the land. He shall strike down a land with the rod of his mouth And slay the wicked with the breath of his lips.
5. Justice shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his waist.
6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie down with the kid; The calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together, With a little boy to herd them.
7. The cow and the bear shall graze, Their young shall lie down together; And the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw.
8. A babe shall play Over a viper's hole, And an infant pass his hand Over an adder's den.
9. In all of My sacred mount Nothing evil or vile shall be done; For the land shall be filled with devotion to the LORD As water covers the sea.
10. In that day, The stock of Jesse that has remained standing Shall become a standard to peoples -- Nations shall seek his counsel And his abode shall be honored.
11. In that day, My Lord will apply His hand again to redeeming the other part of His people from Assyria -- as also from Egypt, Pathros, Nubia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands.
12. He will hold up a signal to the nations And assemble the banished of Israel, And gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.
13. Then Ephraim's envy shall cease And Judah's harassment shall end; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
14. They shall pounce on the back of Philistia to the west, And together plunder the peoples of the east; Edom and Moab shall be subject to them And the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15. The LORD will dry up the tongue of the Egyptian sea. -- He will raise His hand over the Euphrates with the might of His wind and break it into seven wadis, so that it can be trodden dry-shod.
16. Thus there shall be a highway for the other part of His people out of Assyria, such as there was for Israel when it left the land of Egypt.
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