Isaiah 11:1-7

¹A shoot will sprout from the stump of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

²The Spirit of Yahweh will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of instruction and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

³His delight will be the fear of the Lord; he will not judge by what his eyes see, nor decide by what his ears hear.

⁴Instead, he will judge the poor with righteousness and decide fairly for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.

⁵Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his hips.

⁶The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion and the fattened calf, together. A little child will lead them.

⁷The cow and the bear will graze together, and their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.