Isaiah 11

The Branch From Jesse

1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD—
3 and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORDas the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.
11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,[b] from Elam, from Babylonia,[c] from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s enemies[d] will be destroyed; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
15 The LORD will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.

Cross References 67

  • 1. S 2 Kings 19:26; S Job 14:7
  • 2. S Job 14:8
  • 3. ver 10; Isaiah 9:7; S Matthew 1:1; S Revelation 5:5
  • 4. S Isaiah 4:2
  • 5. S 2 Kings 19:30; S Isaiah 27:6
  • 6. S Judges 3:10; Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 48:16; Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 61:1; Ezekiel 37:14; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28; Matthew 3:16; John 1:32-33; John 16:13
  • 7. S Exodus 28:3; S Ephesians 1:17; S Colossians 2:3
  • 8. S Isaiah 9:6; 2 Timothy 1:7
  • 9. Isaiah 33:6
  • 10. John 7:24
  • 11. John 2:25
  • 12. S Psalms 72:2
  • 13. S Psalms 72:4; S Isaiah 14:30
  • 14. S Isaiah 9:7; Revelation 19:11
  • 15. S Job 5:16; S Isaiah 3:14
  • 16. Isaiah 27:7; Isaiah 30:31; Zechariah 14:12; Malachi 4:6
  • 17. S Job 40:18; Psalms 2:9; Revelation 19:15
  • 18. S Job 4:9; Psalms 18:8; Isaiah 30:28,33; Isaiah 40:24; Isaiah 59:19; Ezekiel 21:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:8
  • 19. S Psalms 139:19
  • 20. Exodus 12:11; 1 Kings 18:46
  • 21. Isaiah 25:1
  • 22. Ephesians 6:14
  • 23. Isaiah 65:25
  • 24. S Job 40:15
  • 25. Isaiah 65:20
  • 26. Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6; Isaiah 59:5
  • 27. S Numbers 25:12; S Isaiah 2:4; S Isaiah 9:7; Job 5:23
  • 28. S Psalms 48:1; S Isaiah 2:2
  • 29. 1 Samuel 17:46; Psalms 98:2-3; Isaiah 45:22; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 52:10
  • 30. Exodus 7:5; Isaiah 19:21; Isaiah 45:6,14; Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 31:34; Habakkuk 2:14
  • 31. S Isaiah 10:20
  • 32. S ver 1
  • 33. S Psalms 20:5; Isaiah 18:3; Jeremiah 4:6; John 12:32
  • 34. Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 56:3,6; Isaiah 60:5,10; Luke 2:32; Acts 11:18
  • 35. Romans 15:12*
  • 36. S Psalms 116:7; Isaiah 14:3; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 32:17-18; Isaiah 40:2; Jeremiah 6:16; Jeremiah 30:10; Jeremiah 46:27
  • 37. Haggai 2:9; Zechariah 2:5
  • 38. S Isaiah 10:20
  • 39. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Isaiah 1:9
  • 40. Isaiah 19:24; Hosea 11:11; Micah 7:12; Zechariah 10:10
  • 41. Jeremiah 44:1,15; Ezekiel 29:14; Ezekiel 30:14
  • 42. S Genesis 10:6; Acts 8:27
  • 43. S Genesis 10:22
  • 44. S Isaiah 10:9
  • 45. Isaiah 24:15; Isaiah 41:1,5; Isaiah 42:4,10,12; Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 51:5; Isaiah 59:18; Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 66:19
  • 46. Isaiah 49:12; Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 46:27; Ezekiel 38:8; Zechariah 8:7
  • 47. S Psalms 20:5
  • 48. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 43:5; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 54:7; Jeremiah 16:15; Jeremiah 31:10; Jeremiah 32:37
  • 49. S Nehemiah 1:9; S Psalms 106:47; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 49:5
  • 50. Ezekiel 28:25; Zephaniah 3:10
  • 51. S Psalms 48:10; Psalms 67:7; Isaiah 41:5; Revelation 7:1
  • 52. S 2 Chronicles 28:6; Jeremiah 3:18; Eze 37:16-17,22; Hosea 1:11
  • 53. S 2 Chronicles 26:6; S 2 Chronicles 28:18
  • 54. S Judges 6:3
  • 55. S Numbers 24:18; S Psalms 137:7; Isaiah 34:5-6; Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:22; Ezekiel 25:12; Daniel 11:41; Joel 3:19; Obadiah 1:1; Malachi 1:4
  • 56. Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:14; Isaiah 25:10; Jeremiah 48:40; Zephaniah 2:8-11
  • 57. Judges 11:14-18
  • 58. Isaiah 25:3; Isaiah 60:12
  • 59. S Exodus 14:22; S Deuteronomy 11:10; Isaiah 37:25; Isaiah 42:15; Jeremiah 50:38; Jeremiah 51:36
  • 60. S Genesis 41:6
  • 61. Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 30:32
  • 62. S Isaiah 7:20
  • 63. S Exodus 14:29
  • 64. Isaiah 19:23; Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 49:11; Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 62:10; Jeremiah 50:5
  • 65. S Genesis 45:7
  • 66. S ver 11
  • 67. Exodus 14:26-31

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Isaiah 11 Commentaries

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