Chapter 11

Righteous Reign of the Branch

1 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 1and 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 1csignal for the peoples;

And His dresting place will be 2glorious.

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 1eislands 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;

1They will possess dEdom and eMoab,

And the sons of Ammon will be 2subject to them.

15 And the Lord will 1autterly destroy

The tongue of the 2Sea of Egypt;

And He will bwave His hand over the 3cRiver

With His scorching wind;

And He will strike it into seven streams

And make men walk over 4dry-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.

Chapter 12

Thanksgiving Expressed

1 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;

1Make them remember that His name is exalted.”

5 aPraise the Lord in song, for He has done 1excellent 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.

Chapter 13

Prophecies about Babylon

1 The 1aoracle concerning bBabylon which cIsaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2 aLift up a standard on the 1bbare 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 1afarthest 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 1the 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 1eruthless.

12 I will make mortal man 1ascarcer 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 1mow down the ayoung men,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their beye pity 2children.

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 1owls;

Ostriches also will live there, and 2shaggy goats will frolic there.

22 1Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers

And jackals in their luxurious apalaces.

Her fateful time also 2will soon come

And her days will not be prolonged.

Chapter 14

Israel’s Taunt

1 When the Lord will ahave compassion on Jacob and again bchoose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then cstrangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

2 The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the ahouse of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the Lord bas male servants and female servants; and 1they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

3 And it will be in the day when the Lord gives you arest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

4 that you will atake up this 1taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,

“How bthe oppressor has ceased,

And how 2fury has ceased!

5 “The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,

The scepter of rulers

6 aWhich used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,

Which 1subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

7 “The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;

They abreak forth into shouts of joy.

8 “Even the acypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

9 “aSheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;

It arouses for you the 1spirits of the dead, all the 2leaders of the earth;

It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10 “aThey will all respond and say to you,

‘Even you have been made weak as we,

You have become like us.

11 ‘Your apomp and the music of your harps

Have been brought down to Sheol;

Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you

And worms are your covering.’

12 “How you have afallen from heaven,

O 1bstar of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the earth,

You who have weakened the nations!

13 “But you said in your heart,

‘I will aascend to heaven;

I will braise my throne above the stars of God,

And I will sit on the mount of assembly

In the recesses of the north.

14 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;

aI will make myself like the Most High.’

15 “Nevertheless you awill be thrust down to Sheol,

To the recesses of the pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,

They will 1ponder over you, saying,

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

17 Who made the world like a awilderness

And overthrew its cities,

Who bdid not 1allow his prisoners to go home?’

18 “All the kings of the nations lie in glory,

Each in his own 1tomb.

19 “But you have been acast out of your tomb

Like 1a rejected branch,

2Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the bpit

Like a ctrampled corpse.

20 “You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have ruined your country,

You have slain your people.

May the aoffspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

21 “Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter

Because of the ainiquity of their fathers.

They must not arise and take possession of the earth

And fill the face of the world with cities.”

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon aname and survivors, boffspring and posterity,” declares the Lord.

23 “I will also make it a possession for the ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of bdestruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Judgment on Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, ajust as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

25 to abreak Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his byoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

26 “This is the aplan 1devised against the whole earth; and this is the bhand that is stretched out against all the nations.

27 “For athe Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

28 In the ayear that King Ahaz died this 1boracle came:

Judgment on Philistia

29 “Do not rejoice, O aPhilistia, all of you,

Because the rod that bstruck you is broken;

For from the serpent’s root a cviper will come out,

And its fruit will be a dflying serpent.

30 “1Those who are most ahelpless will eat,

And the needy will lie down in security;

I will 2destroy your root with bfamine,

And it will kill off your survivors.

31 “Wail, O agate; cry, O city;

1Melt away, O bPhilistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the cnorth,

And dthere is no straggler in his ranks.

32 “How then will one answer the amessengers of the nation?

That bthe Lord has founded Zion,

And cthe afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”

Chapter 15

Judgment on Moab

1 The 1oracle concerning aMoab.

Surely in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;

Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

2 They have gone up to the 1temple and to aDibon, even to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;

Everyone’s head is bbald and every beard is cut off.

3 In their streets they have girded themselves with asackcloth;

bOn their housetops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, 1cdissolved in tears.

4 aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;

Therefore the 1armed men of Moab cry aloud;

His soul trembles within him.

5 My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are as far as aZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,

For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;

Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress cover their ruin.

6 For the awaters of Nimrim are 1desolate.

Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass 2died out,

There is bno green thing.

7 Therefore the aabundance which they have acquired and stored up

They carry off over the brook of 1Arabim.

8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,

Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

9 For the waters of Dimon are full of 1blood;

Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,

A alion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.