Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

1 This is the word that Yesha‘yahu the son of Amotz saw concerning Y’hudah and Yerushalayim:

2 In theacharit-hayamim

the mountain ofAdonai’s house

will be established as the most important mountain.

It will be regarded more highly than the other hills,

and all theGoyimwill stream there.

3 Many peoples will go and say,

“Come, let’s go up to the mountain ofAdonai,

to the house of the God of Ya‘akov!

He will teach us about his ways,

and we will walk in his paths.”

For out of Tziyon will go forthTorah,

the word ofAdonaifrom Yerushalayim.

4 He will judge between the nations

and arbitrate for many peoples.

Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades

and their spears into pruning-knives;

nations will not raise swords at each other,

and they will no longer learn war.

5 Descendants of Ya‘akov, come!

Let’s live in the light ofAdonai!

6 For you have abandoned your people

the house of Ya‘akov.

Now they are filled from the east,

full of sorcerers, like the P’lishtim;

even the children of foreigners

are enough for them!

7 Their land is full of silver and gold;

They have no end of treasures.

Their land is full of horses;

They have no end of chariots.

8 Their land is full of idols;

everyone worships the work of his hands,

what his own fingers have made.

9 A person bows down, a man lowers himself —

don’t forgive them!

10 Come into the rock, hide in the dust

to escape the terror ofAdonai

and the glory of his majesty.

11 The proud looks of man will be humiliated;

the arrogance of men will be bowed down;

and when that day comes,

Adonaialone will be exalted.

12 Yes,Adonai-Tzva’othas a day in store

for all who are proud and lofty,

for all who are lifted high to be humiliated;

13 for all cedars of the L’vanon that are high and lifted up,

for all the oaks of the Bashan;

14 for all the high mountains,

for all the hills that are lifted up;

15 for every high tower,

for every fortified wall;

16 for every “Tarshish” ship,

for every luxurious vessel.

17 The pride of man will be bowed down,

the arrogance of men will be humiliated,

and when that day comes,

Adonaialone will be exalted.

18 The idols will be completely abolished.

19 People will enter cracks in the rocks

and holes in the ground

to escape the terror ofAdonai

and his glorious majesty,

when he sets out to convulse the earth.

20 On that day a man will take hold

of his idols of silver and idols of gold,

which they made for themselves to worship,

and fling them away to the moles and bats!

21 Then they will enter the cracks in the rocks

and the crevices in the cliffs

to escape the terror ofAdonai

and his glorious majesty,

when he sets out to convulse the earth.

22 Stop relying on man,

in whose nostrils is a mere breath —

after all, he doesn’t count for much,

does he?

1 For see! The Lord,Adonai-Tzva’ot,

will remove from Yerushalayim and Y’hudah

every kind of support —

all reserves of food and water;

2 heroes and warriors, judges and prophets,

diviners and leaders,

3 captains of fifty,

men of rank and advisers,

skillful magicians and expert enchanters.

4 I will put children in authority;

capriciousness will govern them.

5 People will oppress each other —

everyone his friend, everyone his neighbor.

The young will be insolent toward their elders,

the insignificant arrogant toward the respected.

6 A man will take hold of his brother

in his father’s house and say,

“You have a coat, so rule us!

Take charge of this ruin!”

7 But on that day, he will protest,

“I don’t have a remedy,

I lack food and clothing for my own house;

don’t put me in charge of people!”

8 For Yerushalayim is ruined,

and Y’hudah has fallen;

because their words and deeds defyAdonai,

in open provocation of his glory.

9 Their very look witnesses against them!

They parade their sin, like S’dom;

they don’t even try to hide it —

all the worse for them! —

they bring evil on themselves.

10 Say that it will go well with the righteous,

that they will enjoy the fruit of their actions;

11 but woe to the wicked, it will go badly with him;

for what he has done will be done to him.

12 My people — children oppress them,

and women are ruling over them.

My people! Your guides lead you astray

and obliterate the paths you should follow.

13 Adonairises to accuse,

he stands to judge the peoples.

14 Adonaipresents the indictment

against the leaders and officers of his people:

“It is you who devour the vineyard;

in your houses is plunder taken from the poor.

15 What do you mean by crushing my people

and grinding down the faces of the poor?”

saysAdonaiElohim-Tzva’ot.

16 MoreoverAdonaisays:

“Because Tziyon’s women are so proud,

walking with their heads in the air

and throwing seductive glances,

moving with mincing steps

and jingling their anklets —

17 Adonaiwill strike the crown of the heads

of Tziyon’s women with sores,

andAdonaiwill expose their private parts.”

18 On that dayAdonaiwill take away their finery — their anklets, medallions and crescents,

19 their pendants, bracelets and veils;

20 their headbands, armlets, sashes, perfume bottles, amulets,

21 rings and nose-jewels;

22 their fine dresses, wraps, shawls, handbags,

23 gauze scarves, linen underclothes, turbans and capes.

24 Then, there will be

instead of perfume, a stench;

instead of a belt, a rope;

instead of well-set hair, a shaved scalp;

instead of a rich robe, a sackcloth skirt;

and a slave-brand instead of beauty.

25 Your men will fall by the sword

and your warriors in battle.

26 Her gates will lament and mourn;

ravaged, she will sit on the ground.

1 On that day, seven women will grab hold of one man and say,

“We will supply our own food

and wear our own clothes.

Just let us bear your name;

take away our disgrace.”

2 On that day,Adonai’s plant will be beautiful and glorious; and the fruit of the land will be the pride and splendor of Isra’el’s survivors.

3 Those left in Tziyon and remaining in Yerushalayim will be called holy, and everyone in Yerushalayim written down for life.

4 WhenAdonaiwashes away the filth of the women of Tziyon and cleanses Yerushalayim from the blood shed in it with a blast of searing judgment,

5 Adonaiwill create over the whole site of Mount Tziyon and over those who assemble there a smoking cloud by day and a shining, flaming fire by night; for the Glory will be over everything like ahupah.

6 Asukkahwill give shade by day from the heat; it will also provide refuge and cover from storm and rain.

1 I want to sing a song for someone I love,

a song about my loved one and his vineyard.

My loved one had a vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

2 He dug up its stones and cleared them away,

planted it with the choicest vines,

built a watchtower in the middle of it,

and carved out in its rock a winepress.

He expected it to produce good grapes,

but it produced only sour, wild grapes.

3 Now, citizens of Yerushalayim and people of Y’hudah,

judge between me and my vineyard.

4 What more could I have done for my vineyard

that I haven’t already done in it?

So why, when I expected good grapes,

did it produce sour, wild grapes?

5 Now come, I will tell you

what I will do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge,

and [its grapes] will be eaten up;

I will break through its fence,

and [its vines] will be trampled down.

6 I will let it go to waste:

it will be neither pruned nor hoed,

but overgrown with briars and thorns.

I will also order the clouds

not to let rain fall on it.

7 Now the vineyard ofAdonai-Tzva’ot

is the house of Isra’el,

and the men of Y’hudah

are the plant he delighted in.

So he expected justice,

but look — bloodshed! —

and righteousness, but listen —

cries of distress!

8 Woe to those who add house to house

and join field to field,

until there’s no room for anyone else,

and you live in splendor alone on your land.

9 Adonai-Tzva’otsaid in my ears,

“Many houses will be brought to ruin,

large, magnificent ones left empty;

10 for a ten-acre vineyard will produce

only five gallons of wine,

and seed from five bushels of grain

will yield but half a bushel.”

11 Woe to those who get up early

to pursue intoxicating liquor;

who stay up late at night,

until wine inflames them.

12 They have lutes and lyres, drums and flutes,

and wine at their parties;

but they pay no attention to howAdonaiworks

and never look at what his hands have made.

13 For such lack of knowledge

my people go into exile;

this is also why their respected men starve

and their masses are parched from thirst.

14 Therefore Sh’ol has enlarged itself

and opened its limitless jaws —

and down go their nobles and masses,

along with their noise and revels.

15 The masses are lowered, the nobles are humbled —

proud looks will be brought down.

16 ButAdonai-Tzva’otis exalted through justice,

God the Holy One is consecrated through righteousness.

17 Then lambs will be able to feed

as if they were in their own pasture,

and those wandering through will eat

from the ruined fields of the overfed.

18 Woe to those who begin by pulling

at transgression with a thread,

but end by dragging sin along

as if with a cart rope.

19 They say, “We want God to speed up his work,

to hurry it along, so we can see it!

We want the Holy One of Isra’el’s plan

to come true right now, so we can be sure of it!”

20 Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who change darkness into light

and light into darkness,

who change bitter into sweet

and sweet into bitter!

21 Woe to those seeing themselves as wise,

esteeming themselves as clever.

22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,

men whose power goes to mixing strong drinks,

23 who acquit the guilty for bribes

but deny justice to the righteous!

24 Therefore, as fire licks up the stubble,

and the chaff is consumed in the flame;

so their root will rot,

and their flowers scatter like dust;

because they have rejected theTorah

ofAdonai-Tzva’ot,

they have despised the word

of the Holy One of Isra’el.

25 This is whyAdonai’s anger blazed up against his people,

why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them

[so hard that] the hills shook,

and corpses lay like trash in the streets.

Even after all this, his anger remains,

his upraised hand still threatens.

26 He will give a signal to faraway nations,

he will whistle for them to come

from the ends of the earth;

and here they come, so fast! —

27 none of them tired or stumbling,

none of them sleeping or drowsy,

none with a loose belt,

none with a broken sandal-strap.

28 Their arrows are sharp,

all their bows are strung,

their horses’ hoofs are like flint,

and their [chariot] wheels like a whirlwind.

29 They will roar like lions —

yes, roaring like young lions,

they growl and seize the prey

and carry it off, with no one to rescue.

30 On that day they will growl at them,

like the sea when it growls —

and when one looks toward land,

one sees darkness closing in;

the light is dissipated

in the obscuring overcast.

1 In the year of King ‘Uziyahu’s death I sawAdonaisitting on a high, lofty throne! The hem of his robe filled the temple.

2 S’rafimstood over him, each with six wings — two for covering his face, two for covering his feet and two for flying.

3 They were crying out to each other,

“More holy than the holiest holiness

isAdonai-Tzva’ot!

The whole earth is filled

with his glory!”

4 The doorposts shook at the sound of their shouting, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 Then I said,

“Woe to me! I [too] am doomed! —

because I, a man with unclean lips,

living among a people with unclean lips,

have seen with my own eyes

the King,Adonai-Tzva’ot!”

6 One of thes’rafimflew to me with a glowing coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 He touched my mouth with it and said,

“Here! This has touched your lips.

Your iniquity is gone,

your sin is atoned for.”

8 Then I heard the voice ofAdonaisaying,

“Whom should I send?

Who will go for us?”

I answered, “I’m here, send me!”

9 He said, “Go and tell this people:

‘Yes, you hear, but you don’t understand.

You certainly see, but you don’t get the point!’

10 “Make the heart of this people [sluggish with] fat,

stop up their ears, and shut their eyes.

Otherwise, seeing with their eyes,

and hearing with their ears,

then understanding with their hearts,

they might repent and be healed!”

11 I asked, “Adonai, how long?” and he answered,

“Until cities become uninhabited ruins,

houses without human presence,

the land utterly wasted;

12 untilAdonaidrives the people far away,

and the land is one vast desolation.

13 If even a tenth [of the people] remain,

it will again be devoured.

“But like a pistachio tree or an oak,

whose trunk remains alive

after its leaves fall off,

the holy seed will be its trunk.”

1 During the days of Achaz the son of Yotam, the son of ‘Uziyahu, king of Y’hudah, Retzin the king of Aram and Pekach the son of Remalyah, king of Isra’el, advanced on Yerushalayim to attack it but were unable to conquer it.

2 It was told to the house of David that Aram and Efrayim had become allies. Achaz’s heart began to tremble, as did the hearts of his people, like forest trees shaken by the wind.

3 ThenAdonaisaid to Yesha‘yahu, “Go out now to meet Achaz, you and your son Sh’ar Yashuv, at the end of the aqueduct from the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderers’ Field;

4 and say to him, ‘Take care to stay calm and unafraid; don’t be demoralized by these two smoldering stumps of firewood, by the blazing anger of Retzin and Aram or the son of Remalyah;

5 or because Aram, Efrayim and the son of Remalyah have been plotting against you, thinking,

6 “We will invade Y’hudah, tear it apart, divide it among ourselves and appoint the son of Tav’el as king there.”

7 “‘This is whatAdonaiElohimsays:

“It won’t occur, it won’t happen.

8 For the head of Aram is Dammesek,

and the head of Dammesek Retzin.

In sixty-five years Efrayim will be broken

and will cease to be a people.

9 The head of Efrayim is Shomron,

and the head of Shomron is the son of Remalyah.

Without firm faith,

you will not be firmly established.”’”

10 Adonaispoke again to Achaz; he said,

11 “AskAdonaiyour God to give you a sign. Ask it anywhere, from the depths of Sh’ol to the heights above.”

12 But Achaz answered, “I won’t ask, I won’t testAdonai.”

13 Then [the prophet] said,

“Listen here, house of David!

Is trying people’s patience

such a small thing for you

that you must try the patience

of my God as well?

14 ThereforeAdonaihimself

will give you people a sign:

the young woman* will become pregnant,

bear a son and name him ‘Immanu El [God is with us].

15 By the time he knows enough

to refuse evil and choose good,

he will [have to] eat

curdled milk and [wild] honey.

16 Yes, before the child knows enough

to refuse evil and choose good,

the land whose two kings you dread

will be left abandoned.

17 Adonaiwill bring the king of Ashur

on you, your people and your father’s house.

These will be days worse than any you’ve known

since Efrayim broke loose from Y’hudah.”

18 Yes, when that day comes,

Adonaiwill whistle for the fly

in the farthest streams of the Nile in Egypt

and for the bee in the land of Ashur.

19 They will come and settle, all of them,

in steepvadis and holes in the rocks

and on all thorn bushes and brambles.

20 When that day comes,Adonaiwill shave —

with a razor hired beyond the [Euphrates] River,

that is, with the king of Ashur —

the head and the hair between the legs,

and get rid of the beard as well.

21 When that day comes, a man will raise

a young cow and two sheep.

22 Will they produce in abundance?

No, he will [have to] eat curdled milk.

Indeed, everyone left in the land

will eat curdled milk and [wild] honey.

23 When that day comes,

wherever there once were a thousand grapevines,

worth a thousand pieces of silver,

there will be only briars and thorns.

24 One will go there [to hunt] with bow and arrow,

because all the land will be briars and thorns.

25 You won’t visit hills once worked with a hoe,

for fear of the briars and thorns;

it will be good only for pasturing cattle

and being trampled down by sheep.

1 Adonaisaid to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it in easily readable letters; ‘Maher shalal, hash baz[the spoil hurries, the prey speeds along].’”

2 I had it witnessed for me by reliable witnesses — Uriyah thecohenand Z’kharyahu the son of Y’verekhyahu.

3 Then I had sexual relations with my wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son; andAdonaisaid to me, “Name him Maher Shalal Hash Baz;

4 because before the child knows how to cry, ‘Abba!’ and ‘Eema!’, the riches of Dammesek and the spoil of Shomron will be carried off and given to the king of Ashur.”

5 Adonaiwent on speaking and said more to me:

6 “Since this people has rejected

the gently flowing waters from Shilo’ach

and takes joy in Retzin and the son of Remalyah;

7 nowAdonaiwill bring upon them

the mighty floodwaters of the [Euphrates] River —

that is, the king of Ashur and his power.

It will rise above all its channels

and overflow all its banks.

8 It will sweep through Y’hudah,

flooding everything and passing on.

It will reach even up to the neck,

and its outspread wings

will fill the whole expanse of the land.”

God is with us!

9 You may make an uproar, peoples;

but you will be shattered.

Listen, all of you from distant lands:

arm yourselves, but you will be shattered;

yes, arm yourselves,

but you will be shattered;

10 devise a plan, but it will come to nothing;

say anything you like, but it won’t happen;

because God is with us .

11 For this is whatAdonaisaid to me, speaking with a strong hand, warning me not to live the way this people does:

12 “Don’t regard as alliance what this people calls alliance,

and don’t fear what they fear or be awestruck by it;

13 butAdonai-Tzva’ot— consecrate him!

Let him be the object of your fear and awe!

14 He is there to be a sanctuary.

But for both the houses of Isra’el

he will be a stone to stumble over,

a rock obstructing their way;

a trap and a snare

for the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.

15 Many of them will stumble and fall,

be broken and trapped and captured.

16 Wrap up this document, and confine its teaching to those I have instructed.”

17 I will wait forAdonai,

who is hiding his face

from the house of Ya‘akov;

yes, I will look for him.

18 Meanwhile, I and the children

whomAdonaihas given me

will become for Isra’el

signs and wonders

fromAdonai-Tzva’ot

living on Mount Tziyon.

19 So when they tell you to consult

those squeaking, squawking mediums and fortune-tellers;

[you are to answer],

“Shouldn’t a people seek their God?

Must the living ask the dead

20 for teaching and instruction?”

For they will indeed give you

this unenlightened suggestion.

21 Distressed and hungry

they will pass through the land;

and because of their hunger they will grow angry

and curse by their king and by their God.

But whether they look up [to God]

22 or [down] at the earth,

they will see only trouble and darkness,

anguished gloom and pervasive darkness.

23 But there will be no more gloom

for those who are now in anguish.

In the past the land of Z’vulun

and the land of Naftali were regarded lightly;

but in the future he will honor the way to the lake,

beyond the Yarden, Galil-of-the-Goyim.

1 The people living in darkness

have seen a great light;

upon those living in the land that lies

in the shadow of death, light has dawned.

2 You have enlarged the nation

and increased their joy;

they rejoice in your presence

as if rejoicing at harvest time,

the way men rejoice

when dividing up the spoil.

3 For the yoke that weighed them down,

the bar across their shoulders,

and their driver’s goad

you have broken as on the day of Midyan[’s defeat].

4 For all the boots of soldiers marching

and every cloak rolled in blood

is destined for burning,

fuel for the fire.

5 For a child is born to us,

a son is given to us;

dominion will rest on his shoulders,

and he will be given the name

Pele-Yo‘etz El Gibbor

Avi-‘Ad Sar-Shalom

[Wonder of a Counselor, Mighty God,

Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace],

6 in order to extend the dominion

and perpetuate the peace

of the throne and kingdom of David,

to secure it and sustain it

through justice and righteousness

henceforth and forever.

The zeal ofAdonai-Tzva’ot

will accomplish this.

7 Adonaisent a word to Ya‘akov,

and it has fallen on Isra’el.

8 All the people know it,

Efrayim and the inhabitants of Shomron.

But they say in pride,

in the arrogance of their hearts,

9 “The bricks have fallen,

but we will rebuild with cut stone;

the sycamore-fig trees have been chopped down,

but we will replace them with cedars.”

10 SoAdonaihas raised up Retzin’s foes against him

and spurred on his enemies —

11 Aram from the east, P’lishtim from the west;

and they devour Isra’el with an open mouth.

Even after all this, his anger remains,

his upraised hand still threatens.

12 Yet the people do not turn to the one striking them,

they don’t seekAdonai-Tzva’ot.

13 ThereforeAdonaiwill cut off

Isra’el’s head and tail,

[tall] palm frond and [lowly] reed in a single day.

14 The old and the honored are the head,

while prophets teaching lies are the tail.

15 For those leading this people lead them astray,

and those led by them are destroyed.

16 ThereforeAdonaitakes no joy in their young men

and has no compassion on their orphans and widows;

for everyone is ungodly and does evil,

every mouth speaks foolishly.

Even after all this, his anger remains,

his upraised hand still threatens.

17 For wickedness burns like fire,

it devours briars and thorns;

it sets the forest underbrush ablaze,

with clouds of smoke whirling upward.

18 The anger ofAdonai-Tzva’ot

is burning up the land;

the people, too, are fuel for the fire —

no one spares even his brother.

19 The one on the right grabs but stays hungry,

the one on the left eats but is unfilled.

Everyone devours his own arm’s flesh —

20 M’nasheh devours Efrayim;

and Efrayim, M’nasheh;

while together they oppose Y’hudah.

Even after all this, his anger remains,

his upraised hand still threatens.

1 Woe to those who enact unjust decrees

and draft oppressive legislation

2 to deprive the impoverished of justice

and rob my people’s poor of their rights,

looting widows and preying on orphans!

3 What will you do on the day of punishment,

when calamity comes from afar?

To whom will you flee for help?

Where will you leave your wealth,

4 so as not to squat among the prisoners

or fall among the slain?

Even after all this, his anger remains,

his upraised hand still threatens.

5 “Oh Ashur, the rod expressing my anger!

The club in their hands is my fury!

6 I am sending him against a hypocritical nation,

ordering him to march against a people who enrage me,

to take the spoil and the plunder

and trample them down like mud in the street.

7 That is not what Ashur intends,

that is not what they think;

rather, they mean to destroy,

to cut down nation after nation.

8 For [their king] says,

‘Aren’t all my commanders kings?

9 Hasn’t Kalno [suffered] like Kark’mish,

Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?

10 Just as my hand reached the kingdoms of non-gods,

with more images than in Yerushalayim and Shomron;

11 so won’t I do to Yerushalayim and her non-gods

what I did to Shomron and her idols?’”

12 Therefore whenAdonaihas done everything he intends to do to Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim, “I will punish the king of Ashur for the boasting that comes from his proud heart and from reveling in his arrogant looks.

13 For he says,

“‘With my own strong arm I have done this,

and with my wisdom, because I’m so clever!

I erased the boundaries between peoples,

I plundered their stores for the future;

as a mighty man, I subjugated the inhabitants.

14 My hand found the riches of the peoples like a nest;

and as one gathers abandoned eggs,

I gathered the whole earth!

Not one wing fluttered,

not one beak opened or let out a chirp!’”

15 Should the axe glorify itself

over the one who chops with it?

Should the saw magnify itself

over the one who moves it?

It’s as if a stick could wave

the hand that raises it up,

or as if a wooden staff could lift

[a person, who is] not made of wood.

16 Therefore the Lord,Adonai-Tzva’ot,

will send leanness to his well-fed ones;

and in place of his glory,

a fire will be kindled that will burn and burn.

17 The light of Isra’el will become a fire

and his Holy One a flame,

burning and devouring

his thorns and briars in a single day.

18 The glory of his forest

and of his fertile land

he will consume body and soul,

like an invalid wasting away.

19 So few forest trees will remain

that a child could list them.

20 On that day the remnant of Isra’el,

those of the house of Ya‘akov who escaped,

will no longer rely

on the man who struck them down,

but will truly rely onAdonai,

the Holy One of Isra’el.

21 A remnant will return,

the remnant of Ya‘akov,

to the mighty God.

22 For, although your people, Isra’el,

are like the sand of the sea,

only a remnant of them will return.

Destruction is decreed, overflowing with justice.

23 AdonaiElohim-Tzva’ot

will bring about this decreed destruction

throughout all the land.

24 ThereforeAdonaiElohim-Tzva’otsays:

“My people living in Tziyon,

don’t be afraid of Ashur,

even when he strikes you with a stick

and raises his staff against you,

the way it was in Egypt.

25 For in but a little while, my fury will end;

and my anger will have destroyed them.”

26 Adonai-Tzva’otwill wield a whip against them, as he did when striking Midyan at the Rock of ‘Orev; as his staff was over the sea, he will raise it, the way it was in Egypt.

27 On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders

and his yoke from your neck;

the yoke will be destroyed

by your prosperity.

28 He has come to ‘Ayat

and passed through Migron.

He has stored his equipment at Mikhmas.

29 They have crossed the pass,

then lodged at Geva.

Ramah is shaking,

Giv‘at-Sha’ul has fled.

30 Cry, shriek, Bat-Gallim!

Listen, Layish! Poor ‘Anatot!

31 Madmenah is in flight,

The people of Gevim take cover.

32 This very day he will stop at Nov;

and he will shake his fist

at the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon,

at the hill of Yerushalayim.

33 See howAdonaiElohim-Tzva’ot

lops off the branches with terrible violence!

The ones standing highest are chopped down,

the lofty are laid low.

34 He will hack down the forest underbrush with an axe,

and the L’vanon in its splendor falls.

1 But a branch will emerge from the trunk of Yishai,

a shoot will grow from his roots.

2 The Spirit ofAdonaiwill rest on him,

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and power,

the Spirit of knowledge and fearingAdonai—

3 he will be inspired by fearingAdonai.

He will not judge by what his eyes see

or decide by what his ears hear,

4 but he will judge the impoverished justly;

he will decide fairly for the humble of the land.

He will strike the land with a rod from his mouth

and slay the wicked with a breath from his lips.

5 Justice will be the belt around his waist,

faithfulness the sash around his hips.

6 The wolf will live with the lamb;

the leopard lie down with the kid;

calf, young lion and fattened lamb together,

with a little child to lead them.

7 Cow and bear will feed together,

their young will lie down together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 An infant will play on a cobra’s hole,

a toddler put his hand in a viper’s nest.

9 They will not hurt or destroy

anywhere on my holy mountain,

for the earth will be as full

of the knowledge ofAdonai

as water covering the sea.

10 On that day the root of Yishai,

which stands as a banner for the peoples —

theGoyimwill seek him out,

and the place where he rests will be glorious.

11 On that dayAdonaiwill raise his hand

again, a second time,

to reclaim the remnant of his people who remain

from Ashur, Egypt, Patros,

Ethiopia, ‘Eilam, Shin‘ar,

Hamat and the islands in the sea.

12 He will hoist a banner for theGoyim,

assemble the dispersed of Isra’el,

and gather the scattered of Y’hudah

from the four corners of the earth.

13 Efrayim’s jealousy will cease —

those who harass Y’hudah will be cut off,

Efrayim will stop envying Y’hudah,

and Y’hudah will stop provoking Efrayim.

14 They will swoop down on the flank of the P’lishtim to the west.

Together they will pillage the people to the east —

they will put out their hand over Edom and Mo’av,

and the people of ‘Amon will obey them.

15 Adonaiwill dry up the gulf

of the Egyptian Sea.

He will shake his hand over the [Euphrates] River

to bring a scorching wind,

dividing it into seven streams

and enabling people to cross dryshod.

16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people

who are still left from Ashur,

just as there was for Isra’el

when he came out from the land of Egypt.