Isaiah 11
16 verses
This chapter provides one of the Old Testament's richest portraits of the messianic age, depicting the peaceful kingdom where the wolf dwells with the lamb and a child leads wild animals in harmony. The Branch from Jesse will be endowed with the Spirit of the LORD—wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the LORD—establishing that true rule requires both power and piety. The vision emphasizes that this ruler will judge the poor with justice and the meek with equity, striking the wicked with the rod of his mouth, a portrayal of justice that inverts worldly power structures. The profound image of peace in the animal kingdom—the wolf with the lamb, the leopard with the goat, the lion eating straw like the ox—transcends literal description to communicate the eschatological vision of cosmic reconciliation and the healing of creation itself. Isaiah also promises the restoration of Israel, that in that day the Lord will recover the remnant of his people from Assyria and other nations, gathering the dispersed into a unified people. The passage explicitly states that there will be a highway for the remnant to return, echoing themes of restoration and divine protection that characterize the latter portions of Isaiah. The eschatological vision encompasses not merely the restoration of Israel but the transformation of all creation under the righteous rule of the messianic figure, demonstrating that Isaiah's hope extends beyond historical recovery to fundamental cosmic renewal. Isaiah 11 establishes the messianic ideal that will shape Christian and Jewish expectation of the figure who will bring justice, righteousness, and peace to all creation.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
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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;
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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:
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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.
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And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
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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.
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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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