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Chapter 11

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root: 2 and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness; 3 the spirit of the fear of God shall fill him.⁠ He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report: 4 but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will destroy the ungodly one. 5 And he shall have his waist bound with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth. 6 And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.⁠ 7 And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion and the ox shall eat straw together. 8 And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps. 9 And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas. 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; the Gentiles will trust in him,⁠ and his rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again show his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt,⁠ and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia. 12 And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Judah shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not afflict Ephraim. 14 And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time plunder the sea, and those who come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them. 15 And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall strike the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod. 16 And there shall be a passage for⁠ my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.

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Compare Isaiah 11:16 and LXX Isaiah 11:16

Hebrew Bible · Septuagint

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Summary

Isaiah 11 describes a future return from Assyria, similar to the exodus from Egypt. The Greek Septuagint translation changes Assyria to Egypt, since there were likely not many Jewish people in Assyria when the Septuagint was translated.

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Isaiah 11:16

Hebrew Bible
15 The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind; he will turn it into seven dried-up streams and enable them to walk across in their sandals. 16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria for the remnant of his people, just as there was for Israel, when they went up from the land of Egypt.
740–450 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in Isaiah

LXX Isaiah 11:16

Septuagint
15 And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall strike the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod. 16 And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.
100–1 BCE (scholarly estimate) Read in LXX Isaiah

References

"... analyzing comparatively the passage under inspection and its Hebrew parent text, it is worth saying a few words regarding the dating of the text. While many of those working on the Hebrew text of this passage still wrestle on whether to take it as a pre-exilic or postexilic text, the LXX scholars should note on the one hand Troxel’s aforementioned interesting observation concerning the translator’s reliance on texts (via intertextual links) dated from the third century B.C.E, and, on the other hand, the reference in LXX Isaiah 11:16 to “a highway that will be made across the Delta and the Egyptian sea, not for the Assyrians, as in the Masoretic text, but for ‘my people left in Egypt’.” These elements alone strongly suggest that we are dealing here with a text that is made to clearly refer to the Hellenistic Diaspora ..."
Abi T. Ngunga, Messianism in the Old Greek of Isaiah: An Intertextual Analysis, FRLANT 245 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 100–101.

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