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Isaiah 11 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Reign of Jesse’s Offspring
The Righteous Reign of the Messiah
(Is. 9:1–7 )
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:2 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:3 - His delight is in the fear of the LORD,
And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - But with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:5 - Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:7 - The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 - The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 - “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
For the Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:11 - 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 who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:13 - Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the people of the East;
They shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab;
And the people of Ammon shall obey them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - The LORD will utterly destroy[fn] the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River,[fn]
And strike it in the seven streams,
And make men cross over dryshod.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - There will be a highway for the remnant of His people
Who will be left from Assyria,
As it was for Israel
In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.
NKJV Footnotes
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read dry up.
That is, the Euphrates
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