LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,447)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Bible or other Sacred Texts

A song of Peace
Language: English 
There shall come forth a rod
        out of the stem of Jessie,
        and a branch shall grow out of his roots;
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:

And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
        Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
And with rightness shall he judge the poor,
        and reprove with equity 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.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
        and faithfulness the girdle of his veins.

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.
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 earth.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jessie
        which shall stand for ensign unto the people
        and his rest shall be glorius.

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , Isaiah XI, 1-6,8-10 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "A song of Peace", op. 113 no. 4 [voice and organ], from Bible Songs, no. 4. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: James B. Robinson

This text was added to the website: 2007-06-20
Line count: 26
Word count: 219

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris