Verse Lens · Context pointer
Isaiah 11:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And the cow and the bear shall feed” at Isaiah 11:7 as part of “Jesse's Shoot Judges Justly and Makes Peace.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 11:1–9
The line at Isaiah 11:7 is one step in Isaiah 11:1–9. The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And the cow and the bear shall feed” at Isaiah 11:7 as part of “Jesse's Shoot Judges Justly and Makes Peace.” Its force depends on the unit's ancient referent and what follows.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Isaiah 11:1–9. The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And the cow and the bear shall feed” at Isaiah 11:7 as part of “Jesse's Shoot Judges Justly and Makes Peace.” The literary form and this limit govern it: Jesse's Shoot Judges Justly and Makes Peace does not authorize identifying a modern ruler as the promised king, authoritarian theocracy, or erasing the poem's first royal horizon.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 11:1–9 — Jesse's Shoot Judges Justly and Makes PeaceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 11:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 11:1–9 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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