Isaiah 11

New Catholic Bible

¹ A shoot will spring forth from the stump of Jesse,
    and a branch will grow from his roots.
² The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him:
    a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and power,
    a Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord,
³     and his delight will be the fear of the Lord.
He will not judge by outward appearances
    or reach a verdict based on hearsay.
⁴ Rather, he will judge the poor with justice
    and render fair decisions for the weak and the poor.
He will strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth,
    and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
⁵ Righteousness will be the belt around his waist
    and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
⁶ Then the wolf will live alongside the lamb,
    and the leopard will lie down with the kid;
the calf and the young lion will browse together,
    with a little child to guide them.
⁷ The cow and the bear will graze side by side;
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat hay like the ox.
⁸ The infant will play by the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will lay his hand
    on the viper’s nest.
⁹ No injury or harm will occur
    on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be filled with knowledge of the Lord
    just as water covers the sea.

¹⁰ On that day the root of Jesse
    will be established as a signal to the nations.
They will come forth to unite under him,
    and his dwelling will be glorious.
¹¹ When that day comes,
    the Lord will reach out his hand a second time
to recover the remnant of his people
    from Assyria and Egypt,
from Patmos,^[b] Ethiopia, and Elam,
    from Shinar, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.
¹² He will raise a signal to the nations
    and assemble the outcasts of Israel.
He will also gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.
¹³ The jealousy of Ephraim will cease
    and the hostility of Judah will end.
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
    nor will Judah have any hostility toward Ephraim.
¹⁴ Together they will swoop down
    on the foothills of the Philistines to the west
    and plunder the people of the east.
Edom and Moab will become subject to their rule,
    and the Ammonites will obey them.^[c]
15 The Lord will dry up a pathway
    through the Sea of Egypt,
and he will wave his hand over the Euphrates
    in his fierce anger,
splitting it into seven streams
    so that it can be crossed on foot.
¹⁶ Thus there will be a highway
    for the remnant of his people from Assyria,
as there was for the Israelites
    when they came up from the land of Egypt.