The next passage which comes under notice, is in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, in which a person is mentioned, under whom Israel, and the whole earth was to enjoy great prosperity and felicity.  He is described as an upright prince, endued with the spirit of God, under whose reign there would be universal peace, which was to take place after the return of the Israelites from their dispersed state, when the whole nation would be united and happy.

“There shall spring forth a rod from the trunk of Jesse, and a scion from his roots shall become fruitful.  And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him; the spirit of wisdom, and understanding; the spirit of counsel, and strength; the spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord.  And he shall be quick of discernment in the fear of the Lord; so that not according to the sight of his eyes shall he judge, nor according to the hearing of the ears shall he reprove.  With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and with equity shall he work conviction# on the meek of the earth.  And he shall smite the earth with the blast of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked one.  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his lions, and faithfulness the cincture of his reins.  Then shall the wolf take up his abode with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling shall come together, and a little child shall lead them.  And the heifer, and the she bear shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.  And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the asp; and upon the den of the basilisk shall the new weaned child lay his hand.  They shall not hurt, nor destroy in my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.  And it shall come to pass in that day, the root of Jesse which standeth for an ensign to the people, unto him shall the nations repair, and his resting place shall be glorious.”

As the scion here spoken of is said to spring from the root of Jesse, it looks as if it were intended to intimate, that the tree itself would be cut down, or that the power of David’s Family would be for some time extinct; but that it would revive in “the latter days.”

The same Prince is again mentioned, chap xxxiii. 1, 3, where the people are described to be both virtuous, and flourishing, and to continue to be so. (v. 15—­17.)

“Behold a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule with equity.  And the man shall be a covert from the storm, as a refuge from the flood, as canals of waters in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a land of fainting with heat.  And him the eyes of those that see shall regard, and the ears of them that hear shall harken, * * * * till the spirit from on high be poured out upon us, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed a forest.  And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and in the fruitful field shall reside righteousness.  And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness perpetual quiet, and security.  And my people shall dwell in a peaceful mansion, and in habitations secure, and in resting places undisturbed.”