“A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 11 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.