1Um ramo surgirá do tronco de Jessé, e das suas raízes brotará um renovo.2O Espírito do SENHOR repousará sobre ele, o Espírito que dá sabedoria e entendimento, o Espírito que traz conselho e poder, o Espírito que dá conhecimento e temor do SENHOR.3E ele se inspirará no temor do SENHOR. Não julgará pela aparência, nem decidirá com base no que ouviu;4mas com retidão julgará os necessitados, com justiça tomará decisões em favor dos pobres. Com suas palavras, como se fossem um cajado, ferirá a terra; com o sopro de sua boca matará os ímpios.5A retidão será a faixa de seu peito, e a fidelidade o seu cinturão.6O lobo viverá com o cordeiro, o leopardo se deitará com o bode, o bezerro, o leão e o novilho gordo pastarão juntos;[1] e uma criança os guiará.7A vaca se alimentará com o urso, seus filhotes se deitarão juntos, e o leão comerá palha como o boi.8A criancinha brincará perto do esconderijo da cobra, a criança colocará a mão no ninho da víbora.9Ninguém fará nenhum mal, nem destruirá coisa alguma em todo o meu santo monte, pois a terra se encherá do conhecimento do SENHOR como as águas cobrem o mar.10Naquele dia, as nações buscarão a Raiz de Jessé, que será como uma bandeira para os povos, e o seu lugar de descanso será glorioso.11Naquele dia, o Senhor estenderá o braço pela segunda vez para reivindicar o remanescente do seu povo que for deixado na Assíria, no Egito, em Patros[2], na Etiópia[3], em Elão, em Sinear[4], em Hamate e nas ilhas do mar.12Ele erguerá uma bandeira para as nações a fim de reunir os exilados de Israel; ajuntará o povo disperso de Judá desde os quatro cantos da terra.13O ciúme de Efraim desaparecerá, e a hostilidade de Judá será eliminada; Efraim não terá ciúme de Judá, nem Judá será hostil a Efraim.14Eles se infiltrarão pelas encostas da Filístia, a oeste; juntos saquearão o povo do leste. Porão as mãos sobre Edom e Moabe, e os amonitas lhes estarão sujeitos.15O SENHOR fará secar o golfo do mar do Egito; com um forte vento varrerá com a mão o Eufrates[5] e o dividirá em sete riachos, para que se possa atravessá-lo de sandálias.16Haverá uma estrada para o remanescente do seu povo que for deixado na Assíria, como houve para Israel quando saiu do Egito.
1There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. (Is 11:10; At 13:23)2And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. (Is 61:1; Mt 3:16; Mc 1:10; Lc 3:22)3And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, (Ec 1:8; Jo 7:24)4but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. (Jó 4:9; Sl 2:9; Sl 72:2; Sl 72:4; Sl 139:19; Ml 4:6; 2 Ts 2:8)5Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. (Ef 6:14)6The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. (Is 65:25; Os 2:18)7The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.8The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.9They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. (Sl 78:54; Is 11:6; Hc 2:14)10In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious. (Ex 17:15; Is 11:1; Is 49:22; Rm 15:12)11In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush,[1] from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea. (Gn 10:6; Gn 10:22; Gn 11:2; Gn 14:1; Gn 14:9; Et 10:1; Is 10:9; Is 10:20; Is 27:13; Jr 25:25; Jr 44:1; Jr 44:15; Jr 49:34; Ez 29:14; Ez 30:14; Mq 7:12; Zc 10:10)12He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (Is 11:10; Is 56:8; Zc 10:6)13The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim. (Is 9:21; Ez 37:16; Zc 11:14)14But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them. (Jz 6:3; 2 Sm 8:1; 2 Sm 8:2; 2 Sm 8:14; 2 Sm 12:26; 2 Rs 18:8; Sl 60:8; Jr 49:28)15And the Lord will utterly destroy[2] the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River[3] with his scorching breath,[4] and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals. (Is 7:20; Zc 10:11)16And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt. (Ex 14:29; Is 19:23; Is 35:8)