The Root of Jesse
1 Then a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse,
and from his roots the Branch will bear fruit.
2 And the spirit of Yahweh will rest upon him,
a spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a spirit of counsel and might,
a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.
3 And fear of Yahweh will breathe on him,
and he will not judge by the sight of his eyes,
and he will not decide by the hearing of his ears,
4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness,
and decide in equality for the meek of the land.
And he will smite the land
with the rod of his mouth.
With the breath of his lips
he will slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness will be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his guts.
6 Then the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the kid,
the calf and lion and the fatling together,
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall feed,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 Then the infant will play in the hole of the asp,
and the child will place his hand in the den of the viper.
9 They will not harm, and they will not destroy,
in all my Holy Mountain.
For the knowledge of Yahweh will fill the land,
as the waters cover the sea.
10 And it will be in that day,
that the Root of Jesse,
who shall stand as an ensign for the people,
to him the nations will follow,
and his rest will be glorious.
11 And will be in that day,
Yahweh will send out his hand again,
to recover the remnant of his people who are 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 will set up a ensign for the nations,
and he will assemble the outcasts of Israel.
And the dispersed of Judah will gather,
from the corners of the earth.
13 Then the envy of Ephraim will depart,
and the troublers of Judah will be cut off.
Ephraim will not envy Judah,
and Judah will not trouble Ephraim.
14 But they will fly on the shoulders of the Philistines in the West,
together they will spoil the children of the East,
on Edom and Moab they will lay their hand,
and the children of Ammon will obey them.
15 And Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea, Egypt,
and will shake his hand on the river with his mighty wind.
And he will strike the seven streams
and cause them to walk in sandals.
16 And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people,
which are left from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.