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Righteous Reign of the Branch

¹ Then a ^(C1)Shoot (the Messiah) will spring from the ^(C2)stock of Jesse David's father,
And a ^(C3)Branch from ^(C4)his roots will bear fruit. ^(VR1)

² And the ^(C1)Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—
The Spirit of ^(C2)wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and ^(C3)strength,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the reverential and obedient fear of the LORD—

³ And He will delight in the fear of the LORD,
And He will not judge by what His eyes ^(C1)see,
Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;

⁴ But with ^(C1)righteousness and justice He will judge the ^(C2)poor,
And decide with fairness for the ^(C3)downtrodden of the earth;
And He shall strike the earth with the ^(C4)rod of His mouth,
And with the ^(C5)breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.

⁵ And ^(C1)righteousness will be the belt around His loins,
And ^(C2)faithfulness the belt around His waist.

⁶ And the ^(C1)wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatted steer together;
And a little child will lead them.

⁷ And the cow and the bear will graze together,
Their young will lie down together,
And the ^(C1)lion shall eat straw like the ox.

⁸ And the nursing child will safely play over the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den and not be hurt.

⁹ They will ^(C1)not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the ^(C2)earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
As the waters cover the sea.

¹⁰ Then in that day
The ^(C1)nations will make supplications to the ^(C2)Root of Jesse
Who will stand as a ^(C3)signal for the peoples;
And His ^(C4)resting place will be glorious. ^(VR1)

The Restored Remnant

¹¹ Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again acquire with His hand a second time
The ^(C1)remnant of His people, who will remain,
From ^(C2)Assyria, from Lower ^(C3)Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush (Ethiopia), from ^(C4)Elam in Persia, from Shinar Babylonia, from Hamath in Aram,
And from the ^(C5)coastlands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. ^(VR1)

¹² And He will lift up a ^(C1)signal for the nations
And ^(C2)assemble the ^(F1)outcasts of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.

¹³ Then the ^(C1)jealousy of ^(F1)Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass ^(F2)Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

¹⁴ Ephraim and Judah will unite and ^(C1)swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines toward the ^(C2)west;
Together they will ^(C3)plunder the sons (Arabs) of the east.
They will possess ^(C4)Edom and ^(C5)Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.

¹⁵ And the LORD will ^(C1)utterly destroy
The tongue of the ^(F1)Sea of Egypt;
And with His scorching wind
He will ^(C2)wave His hand over the ^(C3)River;
He will strike and divide it into seven channels
And make it possible for people to walk over in sandals.

¹⁶ And there will be a ^(C1)highway from Assyria
For the ^(C2)remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
^(C3)In the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.