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\c 11
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\q1
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\v 1 Like a new branch often grows from the stump of a tree,
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\q2 there will be a descendant of King David who will be a new king.
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\q1
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\v 2 The Spirit of Yahweh will always be with him.
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\q2 The Spirit will enable him to be wise and to understand many things;
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\q2 The Spirit will enable him to decide what is good to do and will give him great power.
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\q2 The Spirit will enable him to know Yahweh and to revere him.
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\q1
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\v 3 He will be glad to obey Yahweh.
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\q1 He will not decide whether someone is righteous or not only by seeing what that person looks like,
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\q2 or by listening to what others say about that person.
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\q1
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\v 4 He will judge the cases of needy people fairly;
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\q2 and he will act justly toward poor people.
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\q1 He will punish evil people as a result of what he decides;
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\q2 he will get rid of wicked people because of the evil things they have done.
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\q1
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\v 5 He will always act righteously;
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\q2 the good things he does will be like a belt around his waist.
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\q1 He will always speak what is true;
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\q2 the true words he speaks will be like a sash around his waist.
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\q1
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\v 6 When he becomes king, wolves and lambs will live together peacefully;
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\q1 leopards, instead of killing baby goats,
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\q2 will lie down with them.
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\q1 Similarly, fat, healthy calves and lions will eat food together;
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\q2 and a young child will take care of them.
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\v 7 Cows and bears will eat together;
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\q2 bear cubs and calves will lie down together.
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\q1 Lions will not eat other animals;
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\q2 instead, they will eat hay like cows do.
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\q1
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\v 8 Babies will play safely near the holes where cobra snakes live;
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\q1 small children will even put their hands into nests of poisonous snakes,
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\q2 and the snakes will not harm them.
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\q1
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\v 9 No creatures will harm or kill other creatures on Mount Zion, my holy hill;
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\q1 and the earth will be filled with people who know me,
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\q2 as the seas are full of water.
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\p
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\v 10 At that time, a descendant of King David will hold up a flag
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\q2 to signal to the people of all people groups that they should gather around him;
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\q1 they will come to him to get his advice,
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\q2 and the place where he lives will be glorious.
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\v 11 At that time, Yahweh will reach out his hand as he did long ago;
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\q1 he will enable those who had been exiled from Israel to return home,
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\q2 from Assyria, from northern Egypt, from southern Egypt,
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\q2 from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath, and from all the distant countries near the sea.
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\v 12 Yahweh will raise his flag among all the people groups,
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\q2 and he will gather together the people of Israel who were exiled long ago.
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\q1 He will gather from very distant places on the earth
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\q2 the people of Judah whom he had scattered to those places.
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\q1
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\v 13 Then, the people of Israel and the people of Judah will not be jealous of each other any longer,
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\q2 and they will no longer be enemies of each other.
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\q1
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\v 14 Their armies will join together to attack the people of Philistia to the west.
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\q2 And together they will attack nations to the east;
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\q1 they will defeat those nations and take away all their valuable possessions.
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\q1 They will capture the areas of Edom and Moab,
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\q2 and they will rule the people of the Ammon people group.
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\q1
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\v 15 Yahweh will make a dry road through the sea near Egypt.
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\q1 It will be as though he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River
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\q2 and send a strong wind to cause it to divide into seven streams,
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\q2 with the result that people will be able to walk across those streams.
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\v 16 Because he will make a highway for his people who are living in Assyria,
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\q2 they will be able to return to their own land,
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\q1 just like long ago he made a path for the people of Israel
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\q2 so that they could go through the water
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\q2 when they left Egypt.
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