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Righteous Reign of the Branch
1 Then a
Ashoot will spring from the
Bstem of Jesse,
And a
Cbranch from
Dhis roots will bear fruit.
2 The
ASpirit of the Loʀᴅ will rest on Him,
The spirit of
Bwisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and
Cstrength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Loʀᴅ.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the Loʀᴅ,
And He will not judge by what His eyes
Asee,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
4 But with
Arighteousness He will judge the
Bpoor,
And decide with fairness for the
Cafflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the
Drod of His mouth,
And with the
Ebreath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Also
Arighteousness will be the belt about His loins,
And
Bfaithfulness the belt about His waist.
6 And the
Awolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion
1and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
7 Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the
Alion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will
Anot hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the
Bearth will be full of the knowledge of the Loʀᴅ
As the waters cover the sea.
10 Then in that day
The
Anations will resort to the
Broot of Jesse,
Who will stand as a
1Csignal for the peoples;
And His
Dresting place will be
2glorious.
The Restored Remnant
11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The
Aremnant of His people, who will remain,
From
BAssyria,
CEgypt, Pathros, Cush,
DElam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the
1Eislands of the sea.
12 And He will lift up a
Astandard for the nations
And
Bassemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Then the
Ajealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
14 They will
Aswoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the
Bwest;
Together they will
Cplunder the sons of the east;
1They will possess
DEdom and
EMoab,
And the sons of Ammon will be
2subject to them.
15 And the Loʀᴅ will
1Autterly destroy
The tongue of the
2Sea of Egypt;
And He will
Bwave His hand over the
3CRiver
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make
men walk over
4dry-shod.
16 And there will be a
Ahighway from Assyria
For the
Bremnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
In
Cthe day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.