1 ¶ A shoot will come out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch will grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the LORD will 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;

3 And it will make him quick to understand, and his delight will be in the fear of the LORD: and he will not judge by what he sees, or decide by what he hears:

4 But he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with fairness for the meek of the earth: and he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and will slay the wicked with the breath of his lips.

5 Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the wrap around his middle.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the baby goat; and a calf, a young lion, and a fattened animal will together be led by a little child.

7 A cow will feed with a bear; and their young ones will lie down together: and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 A nursing child will play over the hole of a cobra, and a weaned child will put his hand over the den of a viper.

9 They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere in my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

10 ¶ In that day there will be a root of Jesse, who will rise up as a standard for the people; and the Gentiles will seek him: and his rest will be glorious.

11 And it will come to pass in that day, that the Lord will again lift up his hand a second time to get back those of his people who are left, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he will erect a standard, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

13 The envy of Ephraim will go away, and the enemies of Judah will be cut off: Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim.

14 But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west; together they will plunder the people of the east: they will lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will obey them.

15 As the LORD divided the gulf of the Egyptian sea; he will shake his fist against the Euphrates, and with his scorching wind will smash it into seven streams, and have people walk over it with dry sandals.

16 And there will be a highway for those who are left of his people, in Assyria; as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.