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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 11 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Peace at Last</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.1" class="v23_11_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Like a branch that sprouts</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_1">from a stump,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_1">someone from David's family<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.1!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_1">will someday be king.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.2" class="v23_11_2">2</span>The Spirit of the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_2">will be with him</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_2">to give him understanding,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_2">wisdom, and insight.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_2">He will be powerful,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_2">and he will know</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_2">and honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.3" class="v23_11_3">3</span>His greatest joy will be</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_3">to obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_3">This king won't judge</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_3">by appearances</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_3">or listen to rumors.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.4" class="v23_11_4">4</span>The poor and the needy</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_4">will be treated with fairness</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_4">and with justice.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_4">His word will be law</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_4">everywhere in the land,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_4">and criminals</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_4">will be put to death.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.5" class="v23_11_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Honesty and fairness</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_5">will be his royal robes.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.6" class="v23_11_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Leopards will lie down</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_6">with young goats,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_6">and wolves will rest</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_6">with lambs.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_6">Calves and lions</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_6">will eat together</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_6">and be cared for</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_6">by little children.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.7" class="v23_11_7">7</span>Cows and bears will share</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_7">the same pasture;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_7">their young will rest</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_7">side by side.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_7">Lions and oxen</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_7">will both eat straw.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.8" class="v23_11_8">8</span>Little children will play</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_8">near snake holes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_8">They will stick their hands</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_8">into dens of poisonous snakes</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_8">and never be hurt.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.9" class="v23_11_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Nothing harmful will take place</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_9">on the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s holy mountain.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_9">Just as water fills the sea,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_9">the land will be filled</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_11_9">with people who know</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_11_9">and honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h3 class="s1">God's People Will Come Back Home</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.10" class="v23_11_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The time is coming when one of David's descendants<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will be the signal for the people of all nations to come together. They will follow his advice, and his own nation will become famous.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.11" class="v23_11_11">11</span>When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.11!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v23_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.12" class="v23_11_12">12</span>He will give a signal to the nations, and he will bring together the refugees from Judah and Israel, who have been scattered all over the earth. </span><span class="v23_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.13" class="v23_11_13">13</span>Israel will stop being jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be the enemy of Israel. </span><span class="v23_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.14" class="v23_11_14">14</span>Instead, they will get together and attack the Philistines in the west. Then they will defeat the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites in the east. They will rule those people and take from them whatever they want.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.15" class="v23_11_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Lord will dry up the arm of the Red Sea near Egypt,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.11.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and he will send a scorching wind to divide the Euphrates River into seven streams that anyone can step across. </span><span class="v23_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.11.16" class="v23_11_16">16</span>Then for his people who survive, there will be a good road from Assyria, just as there was a good road for their ancestors when they left Egypt.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.1 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">David's family: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Jesse's family.” Jesse was the father of King David.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">David's descendants: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “Jesse's descendants” (see the note at 11.1).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ethiopia: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">land along the coast: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “islands.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">arm of the Red Sea near Egypt: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Gulf of Suez.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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