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Isaiah 11:9

It is questionable if the subject here is still the wild beasts (as in Isaiah 65:25). The second half of the verse is rather against this, and it is better to translate the first half: none shall do evil or act corruptly in all, &c.

my holy mountain Most naturally "Zion," but some commentators understand it of the whole hill-country of Palestine.

for the earth shall be full … sea Cf. Habakkuk 2:14. On the peculiar participial construction, see Driver, Tenses§ 135. (7) Obs.

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See also Isaiah 11:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY SHALL NOT HURT - That is, those who are designated above under the emblems of the lion, the leopard, the bear, and the adder. NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN - Mount Zion; used here, as elsew...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. _The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1)_ 2. _The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6)_ 3. The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MESSIAH'S DIVINE EQUIPMENT. If the reference to the hewn stump of David's house implies the overthrow of the monarchy, the passage presumably is not Isaiah's. This inference, perhaps, is not neces...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN. This expression occurs in the "former" portion only here and Isaiah 27:13, and in the "latter "portion in Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 57:13;...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 877 THE MILLENNIUM Isaiah 11:9. _The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea_. THE generality of mankind ascribe a far greater degree of moral influen...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 876 THE CHANGE TO BE WROUGHT BY THE GOSPEL IN THE LATTER DAY Isaiah 11:6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young li...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE WOLF ALSO SHALL DWELL WITH THE LAMB— We have here the illustrious consequence of the oeconomy of this divine kingdom, this kingdom of righteousness, equity, faith, and grace. Who can wonder that a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER ELEVEN E. PROGRAM OF IMMANUEL 1. DIVINE DIRECTION TEXT: Isaiah 11:1-9 1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit: 2 and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. MY HOLY MOUNTAIN - Zion, i:e., Jerusalem. The seat o...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    11:9 earth (h-14) Or 'the land.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. ROD OUT OF THE STEM] RV 'shoot out of the stock,' implying that the tree has been cut down. The Assyrians have been compared in the vv. preceding to cedars, which when felled throw out no fresh suc...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MY HOLY MOUNTAIN] i.e. Zion wonderfully transformed according to the prophecy in Isaiah 2:2 (Zechariah 14:10)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY... — The pronoun may possibly refer to the evil beasts, the lion, the bear, the leopard, of the previous verses. The prophet, on this view, sees in his vision, as it we...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־יָרֵ֥עוּ וְ לֹֽא ־יַשְׁחִ֖יתוּ בְּ כָל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE KINGDOM OF THE MESSIAH Isaiah 10:33-34; Isaiah 11:1-9 The advance of the Assyrian along the great north road is graphically described. It was marked by raided villages and towns. The night sky wa...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this section the prophet's eyes are lifted toward the light of a far-off day. With judgment imminent, he yet sees the ultimate issue of it all. There is fist a description of a Coming One Isaiah 11...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as (d) the waters cover the sea. (d) It will be in as great abundance as the waters...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Kill. The most inveterate pagans, being once converted, entirely alter their manners, Osee ii. 18._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Spiritual blessings are promised, under figurative expressions. Such are the blessed effects introduced into the circumstances of mankind by the gospel of Christ, that, like the beasts of the forest t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._They shall not hurt. _He now declares plainly, that men themselves, having laid aside the depravity which naturally dwells in them, will be inclined, of their own accord, to do what is right. He sp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN,.... In the Church, so called, in allusion to the holy hill of Zion; in the latter day, after the destruction of antichrist, there will be no mo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 9. _None shall hurt._] Here the foregoing allegory...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain_ Here the prophet himself gives us a key wherewith to open his meaning in the three preceding verses. By the _holy mountain_ he means, the Chri...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, all the members of the Messiah's kingdom, whose former state was characterized by the comparison with the various animals named above, would lo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The Messiah is called a Rod, and a Branch. The words signify a small, tender product; a shoot, such as is easily broken off. He comes forth out of the stem of Jesse; when the royal family was cut...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN; in Zion, in my church. Wherever the gospel comes and prevails, it will have this effect. THE EARTH; metonymically put for the inhabitants of the earth; and as before it was used f...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 11:9 hurt H7489 (H8686) destroy H7843 (H8686) holy H6944 mountain H2022 earth H776 full H4390 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING PARADISE (ISAIAH 11:5). And now, having depicted a situation where good will triumph and evil perish, where all will be just and right, where everything will be in accord with the holiness...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FOR THE EARTH (_ See Scofield) - ( Hab_2:14). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 11:9 I. Most exactly have the figures which the Holy Spirit condescended to apply to Himself been fulfilled in the course of the dispensation; nay, even to this day. His operation has been calm...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Davidic Kingdom and restoration of Israel. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: The great comfort in days of distress is the hope of the coming universal kingdom of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 11:1. _A rod out of the stem of Jesse._ See the note on Isaiah 4:2. David's house had been cut down by Jehu, and latterly by the invasion against Ahaz: chap. 7. Now a branch shall arise out of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse_ A PROPHECY CONCERNING MESSIAH THE PRINCE I. HIS RISE OUT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Isaiah 11:1). II. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS GREAT UNDERT...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb_ A PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY I. THE MORAL VARIETIES OF THE RACE. Men are here represented by irrational creatures, differing immensely in their organisations, thei...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain_ THE GOLDEN AGE Poets have sung of a golden age, saints have prayed for one, the Bible distinctly teaches that one will come. This passage g...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 11:6 THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. The One whom Israel rejected as unhelpful renews the world (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DIFFUSION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD (_For Whit-Sunday_.) Isaiah 11:9. _The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea_. It was promised that “the waters should no...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE KING AND OF HIS KINGDOM Chapter S 11 AND 12 This is one of the visions that Isaiah _saw_ (chap. Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, &c.). He was a dreamer of dreams. With a keen perception,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 11:1 A RENEWED PROPHECY OF MESSIAH AND OF HIS KINGDOM. This chapter is closely connected with the preceding. With the final destruction of Assyria, which, being cut down, sends out...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 11, for the beginning of our study this evening. In the tenth chapter, the closing part of chapter 10 of Isaiah, and again, let me remind you that the chapter distinct...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:15; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:29; Galatians 5:22;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    FROM THE CRADLE TO THE CROSS Isaiah 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Holy Spirit in various parts of the Old Testament gave us all that we need to know beforehand about the birth, the life, the death, a...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My holy mountain — In Zion, in my church. The sea — The channel of the sea....

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