Isaiah 11:6-9

I can't wait for the day that Isaiah has prophesied many years ago will finally come!  I love this painting by Reubens and Brueghe (1615).  The title of the painting is Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man. It depicts the state of affairs just before the original sin (when Eve was giving the fruit to Adam).  It is a taste of what is yet to come.  Come Emmanuel!  


⁶ The wolf will live with the lamb,
   the leopard will lie down with the goat,
   the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
   and a little child will lead them.
⁷ The cow will feed with the bear,
   their young will lie down together,
   and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
   and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s
   nest.
⁹ They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy
   mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD
   as the waters cover the sea.