Isaiah 11:1–9
1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.↗
2The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.↗
3His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;↗
4but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.↗
5Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.↗
6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.↗
7The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.↗
8The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.↗
9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.↗
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