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Isaiah 11:7

The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Allegory;   Bear;   Church;   Gentiles;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Peace;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Bears;   Provender;   The Topic Concordance - Branch of Jesse;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bear, the;   Lion, the;   Ox, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bear;   Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Messiah;   Throne;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Covenant;   King, Kingship;   Lion;   Matthew, Theology of;   Mediator, Mediation;   Peace;   Predestination;   Suffering;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beast;   Straw;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bear;   Cherub (1);   Herd;   Jesus Christ;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Shiloh (1);   Thousand Years;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Isaiah;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bear;   Child, Children;   Hope;   Immanuel;   Kingdom of God;   Messiah;   Peace;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Advent (2);   Agriculture;   Birth of Christ;   Immanuel ;   Messiah;   Prophet;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bear,;   Curse, the;   Flood, the;   Millennium;   Prophets, the;   Straw;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus christ;   Messiah;   Nazarene;   Pathros;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nail;   Straw;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lion;   Millenarians;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bear;   Christ, Offices of;   Cow;   Heavens, New (and Earth, New);   Isaiah;   Lion;   Mediation;   Straw;   Zoology;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bear;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   Bear;   Corn;   Eschatology;   Judaism;   Vegetarianism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The cow and the bear will graze,their young ones will lie down together,and the lion will eat straw like cattle.
Hebrew Names Version
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
King James Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
English Standard Version
The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New American Standard Bible
Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
New Century Version
Cows and bears will eat together in peace. Their young will lie down to rest together. Lions will eat hay as oxen do.
Amplified Bible
And the cow and the bear will graze [together], Their young will lie down together, And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
World English Bible
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the kowe and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also the cow and the bear will graze,Their young will lie down together,And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Berean Standard Bible
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Contemporary English Version
Cows and bears will share the same pasture; their young will rest side by side. Lions and oxen will both eat straw.
Complete Jewish Bible
Cow and bear will feed together, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Darby Translation
And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Easy-to-Read Version
Bears and cattle will eat together in peace, and all their young will lie down together and will not hurt each other. Lions will eat hay like cattle.
George Lamsa Translation
And the cow and the bear shall feed together; and their young ones shall grow up together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Good News Translation
Cows and bears will eat together, and their calves and cubs will lie down in peace. Lions will eat straw as cattle do.
Lexham English Bible
And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.
Literal Translation
The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The cowe and the Bere shal fede together, and their yongones shal lye together. The lyo shal eate strawe like the oxe, or the cowe.
American Standard Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Bible in Basic English
And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
King James Version (1611)
And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Cowe and the Beare shall feede together, and their young ones shall lye together: the Lion shall eate strawe, lyke the Oxe or the Cowe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
English Revised Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A calf and a beere schulen be lesewid togidere; the whelpis of hem schulen reste, and a lioun as an oxe schal ete stre.
Update Bible Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New English Translation
A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.
New King James Version
The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New Living Translation
The cow will graze near the bear. The cub and the calf will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like a cow.
New Life Bible
The cow and the bear will eat side by side. And their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
New Revised Standard
The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the cow, with the bear shall find pasture, Together, shall their young ones, lie down, - And, the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw;
Revised Standard Version
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Young's Literal Translation
And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Contextual Overview

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. 3 And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. 4 But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. 5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them. 7 The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk. 9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 34:15 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 3:22
And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
Genesis 10:5
By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.
Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Cham in their kindreds and tongues, and generations, and lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:32
These are the families of Noe, according to their people and nations. By these were the nations divided on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:2
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.
Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
Genesis 11:11
And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the cow and the bear shall feed,.... That is, together, in one church state, at one table, or in one pasture, upon the wholesome food of the Gospel, the salutary doctrines of Christ; who though before of different dispositions, the one tame and gentle, useful and profitable, dispensing the milk of the divine word, and gracious experience; the other cruel and voracious, barbarous and inhuman, worrying the lambs and sheep of Christ; but now of the same nature, and having no ill will to one another, and being without fear of each other:

their young ones shall lie down together; those like the calf and the young bear, shall lie in the green pastures of Gospel ordinances, and do no injury, the latter to the former, being of one mind, and agreeing in doctrine and practice:

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; kings shall be nursing fathers to the church, and feed on the same Gospel provisions; and there shall be a great agreement between them who were before comparable to lions for their strength, power, and cruelty, and ministers of the Gospel, who are compared to oxen, for their strength and laboriousness, 1 Corinthians 9:9 "straw" here denotes true doctrine, though elsewhere false, see 1 Corinthians 3:12.

See Gill (Editor's note) on "Isa 11:6" .

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the cow and the bear shall feed - That is, together. Animals that by nature do not dwell together, where by nature the one would be the prey of the other, shall dwell together - animage of safety and peace.

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox - A representation of the change that will take place under the reign of the Messiah in the natural disposition of men, and in the aspect of society; as great as if the lion were to lose his natural appetite for blood, and to live on the usual food of the ox. This cannot be taken literally, for such an interpretation would suppose a change in the physical organization of the lion - of his appetites, his teeth, his digestive organs - a change which it would be absurd to suppose will ever exist. It would in fact make him a different being. And it is clear, therefore, that the whole passage is to be interpreted in “moral” sense, as denoting great and important changes in society, and in the hearts of men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 11:7. In this verse a word is omitted in the text, יחדו yachdav, together; which ought to be repeated in the second hemistich, being quite necessary to the sense. It is accordingly twice expressed by the Septuagint and Syriac.


 
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