Isaiah 11:9
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They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
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It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the temporal deliverances of the church to that of the great salvation, which in the fulness of time should be wrought out by Jesus Christ, of which the other were types and figures, to which all the prophets bore witness; and so the ancient Jews understood them. For what else was it that raised so great an expectation of the Messiah at the time he came. Upon occasion of the prophecy of the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib, here comes in a prophecy concerning Messiah the Prince. I. His rise out of the house of David (Isa 11:1). II. His qualifications for his great undertaking (Isa 11:2, Isa 11:3). III. The justice and equity of his government (Isa 11:3-5). IV. The peaceableness of his kingdom (Isa 11:6-9). V. The accession of the Gentiles to it (Isa 11:10), and with them the remnant of the Jews, that should be united with them in the Messiah's kingdom (Isa 11:11-16) and of all this God would now shortly give them a type, and some dark representation, in the excellent government of Hezekiah, the great peace which the nation should enjoy under him, after the ruin of Sennacherib's design, and the return of many of the ten tribes out of their dispersion to their brethren of the land of Judah, when they enjoyed that great tranquility.
Open source ↗11:9 Nothing will hurt or destroy: There will be no evildoers, corruption, or sin on God’s holy mountain (Zion).
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For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.