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1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.Cross-references: Ruth 4:17 · 1Sam 17:58 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 53:2 · +10 more
2Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 11:25 · Deut 34:9 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 48:16 · Isa 59:21 · Isa 61:1 · +13 more
3His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · 2Sam 14:17 · 1Ki 3:9 · 1Ki 3:28 · Job 12:11 · Job 34:3 · +11 more
4but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity 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 kill the wicked.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:15 · 2Sam 23:2 · 1Ki 10:8 · Job 4:9 · Ps 2:9 · Ps 18:8 · +31 more
5Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his waist.Cross-references: Ps 93:1 · Isa 25:1 · Isa 59:17 · Hos 2:20 · 2Cor 6:7 · Eph 6:14 · +5 more
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; and a little child will lead them.Cross-references: Isa 65:25 · Ezek 34:25 · Hos 2:18 · Acts 9:13 · Rom 14:17 · 1Cor 6:9 · +7 more
7The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.Cross-references: Ps 140:3 · Isa 59:5
9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.Cross-references: Job 5:23 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:19 · Ps 98:2 · Isa 2:4 · Isa 11:13 · +20 more
10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 91:1 · Ps 91:4 · Ps 116:7 · Ps 149:5 · Isa 2:11 · +30 more
11It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Gen 10:10 · Gen 10:22 · Gen 11:2 · Gen 14:1 · Lev 26:40 · +46 more
12He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.Cross-references: Deut 32:26 · Ps 68:22 · Ps 147:2 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 18:3 · Isa 27:13 · +10 more
13The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.Cross-references: Isa 7:1 · Isa 9:21 · Jer 3:18 · Ezek 37:16 · Hos 1:11
14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.Cross-references: Num 24:17 · Isa 16:14 · Isa 25:10 · Isa 33:1 · Isa 34:5 · Isa 59:19 · +11 more
15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Ex 14:21 · Ps 74:13 · Isa 7:20 · Isa 19:5 · Isa 19:16 · +6 more
16There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 14:26 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 19:23 · Isa 27:13 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 40:3 · +7 more
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