Isaiah 11

Which worship songs are based on Isaiah 11?

  1. Advent Song — The Porter's Gate (2021) Isaiah 11:1

    The Jesse-root title identifies the anticipated Messiah with the new Davidic ruler prophesied by Isaiah.

  2. O Come, O Come Emmanuel — Skillet (2025) Isaiah 11:1

    The mention of the 'Rod of Jesse' in the lyrics alludes to Isaiah 11:1, which speaks of a shoot coming forth from the stump of Jesse, symbolizing hope and deliverance.

  3. O Come, O Come Emmanuel (feat. IAMSON) — DOE & iAmSon (2022) Isaiah 11:1

    The title drawn from Jesse’s family line closely reproduces Isaiah’s image of a new Davidic ruler emerging from a seemingly cut-down dynasty.

  4. O Come O Come Emmanuel — Tommee Profitt (2020) Isaiah 11:1

    The title drawn from Jesse's stem identifies the expected deliverer with Isaiah's prophecy of a new Davidic ruler emerging from Jesse's apparently fallen royal line.

  5. O Come, O Come Emmanuel (light version) — Skillet (2025) Isaiah 11:1

    The mention of the 'Rod of Jesse' in the song alludes to the prophecy in Isaiah about the coming Messiah from the lineage of Jesse, emphasizing hope for deliverance.

  6. There Blooms a Rose in Bethlehem — Sovereign Grace Music (2014) Isaiah 11:1

    The emerging flower and its ancestry in Jesse’s family adapt Isaiah’s image of a shoot growing from Jesse’s stump. Naming both Jesse and Isaiah makes the prophetic connection unmistakable.

  7. O Come O Come Emmanuel — Victory (2025) Isaiah 11:1-10

    The title identifying the deliverer with Jesse's stem directly invokes Isaiah's prophecy of a Davidic ruler arising from Jesse's family line.

  8. Iba — Nathaniel Bassey & Dunsin Oyekan & Dasola Akinbule (2023) Isaiah 11:1

    The song identifies Jesus with Isaiah's messianic figure arising from Jesse's family line.

  9. SEVEN SPIRITS — Mitch Wong (2025) Isaiah 11:2

    The song reproduces Isaiah’s ordered description of the Spirit resting upon the promised ruler from Jesse’s line, then turns that messianic description into a personal prayer for spiritual filling.

  10. Paradise — Jeremy Camp (2013) Isaiah 11:6-7

    The peaceful pairing of lion and lamb evokes Isaiah’s vision of predators and vulnerable animals living together without violence. It uses a familiar adaptation of the passage rather than its exact animal pairings: Isaiah places the wolf with the lamb and depicts the lion eating straw.

  11. Cradle in Bethlehem — Gregory Porter (2024) Isaiah 11:6

    The declaration that a young child will lead others reproduces Isaiah's prophetic language about the peace associated with the coming Davidic ruler.

  12. Another World — Neal Morse (2007) Isaiah 11:6-7

    The peaceful companionship of predator and vulnerable animal evokes Isaiah’s vision of transformed animal relationships. The song combines animals from that vision rather than reproducing its exact pairings.

  13. Emma (Not Alone) — Jason Upton (2007) Isaiah 11:6-9

    The peaceful coexistence of a lion and a lamb evokes Isaiah’s vision of predators and vulnerable animals living together without harm. The song uses a familiar adaptation of this imagery; Isaiah specifically pairs the wolf with the lamb and places lions among other peacefully coexisting animals.

  14. Love with A Crown — John Mark McMillan (2023) Isaiah 11:6-9

    The vision of wolves, sheep, and a lion peacefully sharing a pasture unmistakably evokes Isaiah’s portrait of reconciled creation under the messianic king.

  15. A Cradle In Bethlehem — Phil Wickham & Evan Wickham (2024) Isaiah 11:6

    The statement that a young child will lead is a direct quotation from Isaiah’s vision of peace under the messianic ruler from Jesse’s line.

  16. Picture This — 11th Hour (2014) Isaiah 11:6-7

    The peaceful pairing of predatory and vulnerable animals adapts Isaiah's vision of creation transformed under the Davidic ruler. The song uses the traditional lion-and-lamb formulation, whereas Isaiah specifically pairs the wolf with the lamb and places the lion among other animals.

  17. Cradle in Bethlehem — Sleeping At Last (2017) Isaiah 11:6

    The description of a young child leading others closely reproduces Isaiah's language within a stanza that explicitly identifies it as ancient prophecy.

  18. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel — Bebo Norman (2007) Isaiah 11:10

    The final stanza combines Jesse’s descendant with a rallying standard for the peoples and the gathering of nations to him, closely following Isaiah’s messianic prophecy.

Isaiah 11 (King James Version)

1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.