Righteous Reign of the Branch
Then a ashoot will spring from the bstem of Jesse,
And a cbranch from dhis roots will bear fruit.
2 The aSpirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of bwisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and cstrength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes asee,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
4 But with arighteousness He will judge the bpoor,
And decide with fairness for the cafflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the drod of His mouth,
And with the ebreath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5 Also arighteousness will be the belt about His loins,
And bfaithfulness the belt about His waist.
6 And the awolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
7 Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the alion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will anot hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the bearth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
10 Then in that day
The anations will resort to the broot of Jesse,
Who will stand as a csignal for the peoples;
And His dresting place will be glorious.
The Restored Remnant
11 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The aremnant of His people, who will remain,
From bAssyria, cEgypt, Pathros, Cush, dElam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the eislands of the sea.
12 And He will lift up a astandard for the nations
And bassemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Then the ajealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
14 They will aswoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the bwest;
Together they will cplunder the sons of the east;
They will possess dEdom and eMoab,
And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.
15 And the Lord will autterly destroy
The tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
And He will bwave His hand over the cRiver
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make men walk over dry‑shod.
16 And there will be a ahighway from Assyria
For the bremnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
In cthe day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.
Thanksgiving Expressed
Then you will say on that day,
“aI will give thanks to You, O Lord;
For balthough You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.
2 “Behold, aGod is my salvation,
I will btrust and not be afraid;
For cthe Lord God is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.”
3 Therefore you will joyously adraw water
From the bsprings of salvation.
4 And in that day you will asay,
“bGive thanks to the Lord, call on His name.
cMake known His deeds among the peoples;
Make them remember that His name is exalted.”
5 aPraise the Lord in song, for He has done excellent things;
Let this be known throughout the earth.
6 aCry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For bgreat in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
Prophecies about Babylon
The aoracle concerning bBabylon which cIsaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 aLift up a standard on the bbare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
cWave the hand that they may denter the doors of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My amighty warriors,
My proudly exulting ones,
To execute My anger.
4 A asound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of the uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts is mustering the army for battle.
5 They are coming from a far country,
From the afarthest horizons,
The Lord and His instruments of bindignation,
To cdestroy the whole land.
Judgment on the Day of the Lord
6 Wail, for the aday of the Lord is near!
It will come as bdestruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore aall hands will fall limp,
And every man’s bheart will melt.
8 They will be aterrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will bwrithe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
9 Behold, athe day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
10 For the astars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light;
The bsun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
11 Thus I will apunish the world for its evil
And the bwicked for their iniquity;
I will also put an end to the carrogance of the proud
And abase the dhaughtiness of the eruthless.
12 I will make mortal man ascarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the bgold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the aheavens tremble,
And bthe earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of hosts
In cthe day of His burning anger.
14 And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,
Or like asheep with none to gather them,
They will each turn to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.
15 Anyone who is found will be athrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their alittle ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.
Babylon Will Fall to the Medes
17 Behold, I am going to astir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or btake pleasure in gold.
18 And their bows will mow down the ayoung men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their beye pity children.
19 And aBabylon, the bbeauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God coverthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will anever be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the bArab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But adesert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.
22 Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious apalaces.
Her fateful time also will soon come
And her days will not be prolonged.