What does Isaias Chapter 11 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 11 announces Jesse-root rod and flower, Lord's spirit with wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, godliness and fear. He judges not by eyesight nor reproves by hearing, judges poor justly/meek equitably, strikes earth with mouth-rod and kills wicked by lip-breath, justice loins-girdle and faith reins-girdle. These are prophetic claims, not an independent universal governance doctrine.

Wolf/lamb, leopard/kid, calf/lion/sheep coexist led by child; calf/bear feed, young rest, lion eats straw like ox. Nursing child plays on asp-hole, weaned hand enters basilisk den. No harm/killing on holy mountain with divine knowledge seawaterlike filling earth. Physical venom risks are not contemporary safety advice.

Jesse root people's ensign, Gentiles beseech and sepulchre glorious. Second divine hand possesses survivors from Assyria, Egypt, Phetros, Ethiopia, Elam, Sennaar, Emath and sea islands; standard gathers Israel fugitives and Juda dispersed fourquarters. Ephraim envy ends, Juda enemies perish, tribes cease mutual envy/war. They fly at Philistine sea-shoulders, together spoil east's children, rule Edom/Moab and receive Ammon obedience. Lord wastes Egyptian sea-tongue, hand over river by spirit-strength, strikes sevenstreams allowing shoes-crossing. Highway for Assyrian remnant resembles Israel's Egypt exit. Broad cosmic reconciliation and unlabeled dryshod river-parting claims do not replace these particulars.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Development: Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. Conclusion: The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording.
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Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct.
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The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 79471–79472
11:1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
Lines 79490–79492
11:6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.