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Isaiah 11

1 Christ born of the root of Jshái: 2 His Vertues and kingdom 6 The fruits of the Gospel. 10 The calling of the Gentiles.
1.But there shall come a arod forth of the stock of Jshái, and a grass shall grow out of his roots.
2.And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord,
3.And shall make him prudent in the fear of the Lord: for he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove by the hearing of his ears.
4.But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and with equity shall he reprove for the meek of the earth: and he shall bsmite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5.And justice shalbe the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his raines.
6.The cwolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calf, and the lyon, and the fat beast together, and a little child shall lead them.
7.And the cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eat straw like the bullock.
8.And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand upon the cockatrice hole.
9.Then shall none hurt nor destroy in all the mountain of mine holiness: for the earth shalbe full of the knowledge of the Lord, as dthe waters that cover the sea.
10.And in that day the root of Jshái, which shall stand up for a sign unto the epeople, the nations shall seek unto it, and his frest shall be glorious.
11.And in the same day shall the Lord stretch out his hand gagain the second time, to possess the remnant of his people, (which shalbe left) of Asshúr, and of Egypt, and of Pathros, and of Ethiopia, and of Elám, and of Shinár, and of Hamáth, and of the yles of the sea.
12.And he shall set up a sign to the nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israél, and gather the scattered of Judáh from the four corners of the world.
13.The hatred also of Ephráim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judáh shalbe cut off Ephráim shall not envy hJudáh, neither shall Judáh vex Ephráim:
14.But they shall flee upon the shoulders of the Philistíms toward the West they shall spoil them of the East together: Edóm and Moáb shalbe the stretching out of their hands, and the children of Ammón in their obedience.
15.The Lord also shall utterly destroy the itongue of the Egyptian’s sea, and with his mighty wind shall lift up his hand kover the river, and shall smite him in his seven streams, and cause men to walk therein with shoes.
16.And there shalbe a path to the remnant of his people, which are left of Asshúr, like as it was unto Israél in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Notes

1-a.
Because the captivity of Babylon was a figure of the spiritual captivity under sin, he shows that our true deliverance must come by Christ for as David came out of Jesse a man without dignity so Christ should come of a poor carpenter’s house as out of a dead stock, Chap. 53.2.
4-b.
All these properties can agree to none but only unto Christ for it is he that touches the hearts of the faithful and mortifies their concupiscences and to the wicked he is the savour of death and to them that shall perish, so that all the world shall be smitten with this rod, which is his word.
6-c.
Men because of their wicked affections are named by the names of beasts, wherein the like affections reign but Christ by his Spirit shall reform them, and work in them such mutual charity, that they shall be like lambs favouring and loving one another, and cast off all their cruel affections, Ch. 65.25.
9-d.
It shall be in as great abundance as the waters in the sea.
10-e.
He prophesies of the calling of the Gentiles.
10-f.
That is, his Church, which he also calls his rest, Ps. 132.14.
11-g.
For God first delivered his people out of Egypt, and now promises to deliver them out of their enemies hands, as from the Parthians, Persians, Chaldeans, and them of Antiochia, among whom they were dispersed and this is chiefly meant of Christ, who calls his people, being dispersed through all the world.
13-h.
Here he describes the consent that shall be in his Church, and their victory against their enemies.
15-i.
Meaning, a corner of the sea, that enters into the land, and has the form of a tongue.
15-k.
To wit Nilus, the great river of Egypt, which enters into the sea with seven streams.