1 And a king shall come forth from the sons of Jesse, and from his children’s children the Messiah shall be anointed.⁠a 2 And there shall dwell upon him the spirit of prophecy from before the LORD: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. 3 He shall bring him to the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with faithfulness the needy of the earth; and he shall strike the sinners of the earth with the word of his mouth,⁠b and with the speech of His lips he shall slay Romulus the wicked. 5 And the righteous shall be around him, and the workers of faith shall draw near to him. 6 In the days of the Messiah of Israel peace shall be multiplied in the earth. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall dwell with the kid; and the calf, and the lion, and the fatling together; and a little sucking child shall be leading them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed together, their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put forth his hand on the sight of the pupil of the eyes of the adder. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the fear of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 10 And there shall be at that time a son of the son of Jesse, who shall stand for an ensign of the people; kings shall obey him, and the place of his dwelling shall be in glory. 11 And it shall come to pass at that time, that the LORD shall add a second time His might to redeem the remnant of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pattros, and from India, and from Elam, and from Babylon, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And He shall lift up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the scattered of Israel, and the captivity of Judah He shall gather together from the four winds of the earth. 13 The envy of the house of Ephraim shall depart, and those that oppress the house of Judah shall come to an end: those of the house of Ephraim shall not envy the house of Judah; and those of the house of Judah shall not oppress the house of Ephraim. 14 They shall be united in one mind to strike the Philistines towards the west: they shall spoil the children of the east. Against Edom and Moab they shall stretch out their hands, and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall dry up the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and shall lift the stroke of His strength upon Euphrates by the word of His prophets, and shall strike it in seven streams, and men shall walk through it on dry ground. 16 And there shall be a paved way for the remnant of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria, as it was for Israel in the day of their coming up from the land of Egypt.