1 A shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will grow out of his roots and bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him: a spirit of wisdom and insight, a spirit of counsel and strength, a spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
3 He will take delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what his eyes see or give his verdict by what his ears hear;
4 instead, he will judge the poor with righteousness and give fair decisions for the humble of the land. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and put the wicked to death with the breath of his lips.
5 Righteousness will be the sash around his waist, and faithfulness the sash around his hips.
6 The wolf will live as a guest with the lamb, the leopard will lie down beside the young goat; calf, young lion and fattened ox will be together, and a small child will lead them.
7 Cow and bear will feed side by side, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw as the ox does.
8 A baby still nursing will play by the cobra's hole, and a child just weaned will put his hand into the viper's nest.
9 No one will do harm or ruin anywhere on my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters fill the sea.
10 On that day the root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will seek him out, and the place where he rests will be glorious.
11 On that day the Lord will put out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left, from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
12 He will lift up a banner for the nations; he will gather the exiles of Israel and collect the scattered ones of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies will be cut off; Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile to Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the people of the east. Edom and Moab will be in their grasp, and the children of Ammon will be subject to them.
15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; with his scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the River and break it up into seven streams, so that people can walk across in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, just as there was for Israel when they came up out of the land of Egypt.