Behold the Lord, the Lord of Hosts Shall lop the bough with a loud crash, And the high tops shall be hewn down And the lofty shall be made low. He fells the thickets of the forest with the axe, And Lebanon falls by a mighty hand. Yet there shall come forth a shoot from the stem of Jesse, And a scion shall grow out of his root; 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 the knowledge and fear of Jehovah. He shall be of quick discernment in the fear of Jehovah, And shall not judge according to appearances, Nor decide according to hearsay. But he shall judge the poor in righteousness, And speak for the right of the oppressed in the land. He shall smite the evil doer with his tongue, And slay the wicked with the breath of his lips. Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the cincture of his reins. Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with the kid, And the calf and the young lion, and the fatling shall be together, And a little child shall lead them. And the heifer and the she-bear shall feed together, Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like an ox; The suckling shall play upon the hole of the aspic, And the weaned child lay his hand upon the den of the basilisk: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters cover the depths of the sea.—Is. x. 33. “Contemporary with Isaiah, the sublimest of our prophets, was Micah, the Morasthite, who uttered these words: The sun goeth down over the prophets And the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, And the diviners confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their faces Because no fulfilment cometh from Jehovah. But I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, Full of truth, and of courage, To declare unto Jacob his transgression And unto Israel his sin. For this reason shall Zion be ploughed as a field, And Jerusalem shall become heaps, And the temple-hill as the high places of the forest. But in the last days it shall come to pass