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There shall come forth a shoot
from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
And 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.
And his delight shall be in
the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what
his eyes see,
or decide by what his ears hear:
but with righteousness he shall
judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the
meek of the earth;
and he shall smite the earth with the
rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips
he shall slay the wicked.
Righteousness shall be the girdle
of his waist,
and faithfulness the girdle
of his loins.
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid,
and the calf and the lion and
the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall feed;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox.
The sucking child shall play over
the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the adder's den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
- Isaiah 11:1-9
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