THE ROOT OF JESSE
Isaiah
11:1-16 / Keywords
11:10
In
that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations
will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.
from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
or decide by what he hears with his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness will be his belt
and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,[b] from Elam, from Babylonia,[c] from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.
12 He will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of Israel;
he will assemble the scattered people of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.
13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies[d] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.
They will subdue Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
15 The Lord will dry up
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand
over the Euphrates River.
He will break it up into seven streams
so that anyone can cross over in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that is left from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.
Footnotes
a. Isaiah 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed
b. Isaiah 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region
c. Isaiah 11:11 Hebrew Shinar
d. Isaiah 11:13 Or hostility
1.
A shoot will come up (1-9)
Isaiah looked forward to the day
when the Messiah would come. He would have the Spirit of the Lord and delight
in the fear of the Lord. He would judge with God’s righteousness. Through him the
power of sin is vanquished, and all of God’s creation is reconciled to him and to each other in
perfect peace. Jesus would be the shoot that springs from the stump of Jesse.
By his death he would atone for sin completely. By his resurrection he would
declare victory over the power of sin and death. Through Jesus the glory of God
is brightly revealed, and the earth that has dwelled in the darkness of sin
will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.
2. A banner for the nations
(10-16)
The Root of Jesse is the banner
that people from all nations will rally to. The Lord will gather his people
from the ends of the earth to live and reign with him in his kingdom. The Lord
provides a highway for his people to come to him. Through Jesus the nations
have hope in the kingdom of God.
Prayer Lord, thank you. Thank you for
providing a way for a hopeless sinner to have hope in the kingdom of God.
One Word Jesus is my hope
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