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New Century Version

Isaiah 11:7

Cows and bears will eat together in peace. Their young will lie down to rest together. Lions will eat hay as oxen do.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Allegory;   Bear;   Church;   Gentiles;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Peace;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Animals;   Bears;   Provender;   The Topic Concordance - Branch of Jesse;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bear, the;   Lion, the;   Ox, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bear;   Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Messiah;   Throne;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Covenant;   King, Kingship;   Lion;   Matthew, Theology of;   Mediator, Mediation;   Peace;   Predestination;   Suffering;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beast;   Straw;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bear;   Cherub (1);   Herd;   Jesus Christ;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Shiloh (1);   Thousand Years;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Isaiah;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bear;   Child, Children;   Hope;   Immanuel;   Kingdom of God;   Messiah;   Peace;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Advent (2);   Agriculture;   Birth of Christ;   Immanuel ;   Messiah;   Prophet;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bear,;   Curse, the;   Flood, the;   Millennium;   Prophets, the;   Straw;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus christ;   Messiah;   Nazarene;   Pathros;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nail;   Straw;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lion;   Millenarians;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bear;   Christ, Offices of;   Cow;   Heavens, New (and Earth, New);   Isaiah;   Lion;   Mediation;   Straw;   Zoology;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bear;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;   Bear;   Corn;   Eschatology;   Judaism;   Vegetarianism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The cow and the bear will graze,their young ones will lie down together,and the lion will eat straw like cattle.
Hebrew Names Version
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
King James Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
English Standard Version
The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New American Standard Bible
Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Amplified Bible
And the cow and the bear will graze [together], Their young will lie down together, And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
World English Bible
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the kowe and the beare shall feede: their yong ones shall lie together: and the lyon shall eate strawe like the bullocke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also the cow and the bear will graze,Their young will lie down together,And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Berean Standard Bible
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Contemporary English Version
Cows and bears will share the same pasture; their young will rest side by side. Lions and oxen will both eat straw.
Complete Jewish Bible
Cow and bear will feed together, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Darby Translation
And the cow and the she-bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Easy-to-Read Version
Bears and cattle will eat together in peace, and all their young will lie down together and will not hurt each other. Lions will eat hay like cattle.
George Lamsa Translation
And the cow and the bear shall feed together; and their young ones shall grow up together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Good News Translation
Cows and bears will eat together, and their calves and cubs will lie down in peace. Lions will eat straw as cattle do.
Lexham English Bible
And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.
Literal Translation
The cow and the bear shall feed, their young shall lie together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The cowe and the Bere shal fede together, and their yongones shal lye together. The lyo shal eate strawe like the oxe, or the cowe.
American Standard Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Bible in Basic English
And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
King James Version (1611)
And the cow and the beare shall feed, their yong ones shall lie downe together: and the lyon shall eate straw like the oxe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Cowe and the Beare shall feede together, and their young ones shall lye together: the Lion shall eate strawe, lyke the Oxe or the Cowe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
English Revised Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A calf and a beere schulen be lesewid togidere; the whelpis of hem schulen reste, and a lioun as an oxe schal ete stre.
Update Bible Version
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New English Translation
A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.
New King James Version
The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
New Living Translation
The cow will graze near the bear. The cub and the calf will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like a cow.
New Life Bible
The cow and the bear will eat side by side. And their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
New Revised Standard
The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the cow, with the bear shall find pasture, Together, shall their young ones, lie down, - And, the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Revised Standard Version
The cow and the bear shall feed; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Young's Literal Translation
And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their young will lie down together, And the lion will eat straw like the ox.

Contextual Overview

1 A new branch will grow from a stump of a tree; so a new king will come from the family of Jesse. 2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest upon that king. The Spirit will give him wisdom and understanding, guidance and power. The Spirit will teach him to know and respect the Lord . 3 This king will be glad to obey the Lord . He will not judge by the way things look or decide by what he hears. 4 But he will judge the poor honestly; he will be fair in his decisions for the poor people of the land. At his command evil people will be punished, and by his words the wicked will be put to death. 5 Goodness and fairness will give him strength, like a belt around his waist. 6 Then wolves will live in peace with lambs, and leopards will lie down to rest with goats. Calves, lions, and young bulls will eat together, and a little child will lead them. 7 Cows and bears will eat together in peace. Their young will lie down to rest together. Lions will eat hay as oxen do. 8 A baby will be able to play near a cobra's hole, and a child will be able to put his hand into the nest of a poisonous snake. 9 They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain, because the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord , as the sea is full of water.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 34:15 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth."
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever."
Genesis 10:5
Those who lived in the lands around the Mediterranean Sea came from these sons of Japheth. All the families grew and became different nations, each nation with its own land and its own language.
Genesis 10:20
All these people were the sons of Ham, and all these families had their own languages, their own lands, and their own nations.
Genesis 10:32
This is the list of the families from the sons of Noah, arranged according to their nations. From these families came all the nations who spread across the earth after the flood.
Genesis 11:2
As people moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."
Genesis 11:5
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
Genesis 11:11
After that, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, his son Shelah was born.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the cow and the bear shall feed,.... That is, together, in one church state, at one table, or in one pasture, upon the wholesome food of the Gospel, the salutary doctrines of Christ; who though before of different dispositions, the one tame and gentle, useful and profitable, dispensing the milk of the divine word, and gracious experience; the other cruel and voracious, barbarous and inhuman, worrying the lambs and sheep of Christ; but now of the same nature, and having no ill will to one another, and being without fear of each other:

their young ones shall lie down together; those like the calf and the young bear, shall lie in the green pastures of Gospel ordinances, and do no injury, the latter to the former, being of one mind, and agreeing in doctrine and practice:

and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; kings shall be nursing fathers to the church, and feed on the same Gospel provisions; and there shall be a great agreement between them who were before comparable to lions for their strength, power, and cruelty, and ministers of the Gospel, who are compared to oxen, for their strength and laboriousness, 1 Corinthians 9:9 "straw" here denotes true doctrine, though elsewhere false, see 1 Corinthians 3:12.

See Gill (Editor's note) on "Isa 11:6" .

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the cow and the bear shall feed - That is, together. Animals that by nature do not dwell together, where by nature the one would be the prey of the other, shall dwell together - animage of safety and peace.

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox - A representation of the change that will take place under the reign of the Messiah in the natural disposition of men, and in the aspect of society; as great as if the lion were to lose his natural appetite for blood, and to live on the usual food of the ox. This cannot be taken literally, for such an interpretation would suppose a change in the physical organization of the lion - of his appetites, his teeth, his digestive organs - a change which it would be absurd to suppose will ever exist. It would in fact make him a different being. And it is clear, therefore, that the whole passage is to be interpreted in “moral” sense, as denoting great and important changes in society, and in the hearts of men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 11:7. In this verse a word is omitted in the text, יחדו yachdav, together; which ought to be repeated in the second hemistich, being quite necessary to the sense. It is accordingly twice expressed by the Septuagint and Syriac.


 
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