Let us turn then to God's Word
and the opening two verses in our Old Testament lesson in Isaiah
chapter 11. Isaiah chapter 11, the first
two verses, And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, 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. In Isaiah 11, verses 1 and 2. The one spoken of here, of course,
is the Lord Jesus Christ, that rod and the branch that proceeds
out of Jesuit. Clearly the chapter is speaking
of the gospel day. I know that historically we are
to understand the reference to the deliverance of the children
of Israel from the captivity. But there is a deeper spiritual
meaning, of course, in these words, and ultimately it is to
be applied to the Gospel day, as we see in verse 10, in that
day. Remember the significance of
those four words, and in that day, the last day, the great
day of the Gospel, there shall be a root of Jesuit which shall
stand for an ensign of the people it says and through it shall
the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious. There is a
reference into the calling of the Gentiles and we have it there
in the Acts of the Apostles when Paul turns from the Jews who
are rejecting the Gospel of Christ and says he will turn now to
the Gentiles. Well that ministry of the Apostle,
of course, is but the fulfilment of things that we read here in
the Old Testament. And in fact, those words that
we've just referred to in the 10th verse are taken up by Paul
when he writes to the church at Rome. In chapter 15, and there
at verse 12, we have that very scripture quoted. But look at what Paul is saying
in the context here in the end of the epistle to the Romans,
which was very much a Gentile church. Verse 8 he says, Now
I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth
of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers, and that
the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy as it is written
for this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles and
sing unto thy name and again he says rejoice ye Gentiles with
his people and again praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and Lord
him all ye people and again Isaiah says and then we have those words
of Isaiah 11 10 there shall be a root of Jesse And he that shall
rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.
And so we know from the authority of Paul writing under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit there in Romans 15 that the words of this chapter
Isaiah chapter 11, the chapter from which our text is taken,
we know that this chapter is to be understood ultimately in
terms of Christ and his gospel. It shall come to pass in that
day. What day is that? It is the last
days, it is the gospel day. Behold now is the accepted time
and behold now is the day of salvation. Well, let us come
to these two verses at the beginning of the chapter. First of all,
in the opening verse, we read, as I have said, of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And here we have the person of
the Lord Jesus Christ set before us. The rod, the branch out of
Jesse. and there shall come forth a
rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of
his roots. The branch is one of the names
that is given to the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament in
the book of the Prophet Zechariah in chapter 6. Behold the man
whose name is the branch, says the Prophet. In the game previous
to that in the third chapter Behold, I will bring forth my
servant, the Branch. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
is Him who is spoken of here in Isaiah as the Lord's Servant. And there in Zechariah chapter
3 and verse 8, the Servant's name is said to be the Branch. A branch out of the stem of Jesse,
and the branch growing out of his roots. And yet, in verse
10, he himself, this one who is the branch, is said to be
a root of Jesse. A root of Jesse. I'm sure you're aware of who
the man Jesse is. He's the father, of course, of
David. Jesse begat David we read in
Ruth chapter 4. And here he is spoken of in this
chapter as being both a rod or a branch coming out of Jesse
and then in verse 10 spoken of as one who is the root of Jesse,
David's father. And again turning to the New
Testament scriptures right at the end of the Bible in Revelation
chapter 22 Christ speaks those words I am the root he says and
the offspring of David you see then the significance of the
imagery that is being employed there Christ is both the The
root of David is the root of Jesse, David's father, but he
is also the offspring. The offspring of David and the
offspring of Jesse. What does this remind us of?
It reminds us, does it not, of those two natures in the Lord
Jesus Christ. That he is before David, When
we think of him in terms of his divine nature, he is the creator
of David, of Jesse, the creator of all things, he is God. And
yet when we think in terms of his human nature, he is descended
from these men, Jesse and David. Remember how during his earthly
ministry the Lord Jesus Christ the challenges the Pharisees
with regards to his own sonship in the end of Matthew chapter
22 and there at verse 41, while the
Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them saying, what
think ye of Christ? whose son is he? they say unto him the son of
David, that was true The Christ, the Messiah, is to
be the Son of David. He asks them then, what think
ye of Christ, whose Son is he? They say unto him, The Son of
David. He saith unto them, O then doth
David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my
Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy
footstool. If David then call him Lord,
O is he his Son? No man was able to answer him
a word, neither does any man from that day forth ask him any
more questions. He silences. And he silences
them with that great mystery of himself, his person. Oh, it
is, truly friends, a great mystery, the person of the Lord Jesus
Christ, because he is God and he is man. And this is what we
see in the Scripture. Here in the opening verse of
the chapter we are reminded of his human nature, his descent
from Jesse, his descent from David, a rod out of the stem
of Jesse, a branch growing out of his roots. And then in verse
10 we are reminded of his deity, that he is truly the root of
Jesse, the root of David. Those two natures then, in the
Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, very God of very
God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father, in
the work of the ancient creed, God of God, Light of Light, and yet in the fullness of the
time He comes into this world. He humbles himself in the incarnation
God was manifest in the flesh and this is the gospel this is
how Paul defines the gospel when he opens his epistle to the church
at Rome this is the first truth that he said before them the
person of Christ the two natures Paul a servant of Jesus Christ
called to be an apostle separated onto the Gospel of God. And then
we have that parenthesis in verse 2, which he had promised to fall
by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures. He is speaking of the Gospel,
the Gospel of God. And what is the subject matter
of the Gospel? Well, he tells us, verse 3 there,
concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the
Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by
the resurrection from the dead. According to the flesh and his
human nature, he is of the seed of David. He is David's son.
He is Jesse's son. But he is declared in the resurrection
to be the Son of God. He is demonstrated there to be
the eternal Son of God. The two natures there. the mystery
of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is a man. And what a glorious truth is
that, friends. He is a man. And he understands
us in our humanity. He sympathises for us in our
humanity. He understands our human nature. We have not had high priest which
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, says Paul,
but was in all points tempted, like as we are, yet without seeing.
It is a sinless humanity. All that he sympathises for us,
in all our human frailty, in all our human weaknesses, he
understands us. It is a most precious truth,
is it not? that Jesus Christ is a real man
and he has entered heaven now as a real man and he is there
at God's right hand as a real man even from heaven you see
he feels for his people here upon the earth again Paul In Galatians chapter
4 it tells us, when the fullness of the time was come, God sent
forth his Son made of a woman. There is his humanity made of
a woman, the seed of the woman, made under the law. As a man he has come into that
very law place for his people and he has redeemed them. O Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, says Paul. For it
is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a throne. His
people were the transgressors of that holy, good and righteous
law of God. And Christ has come and in their
room and in their stead he has answered before the law for them. answered the Lord in terms of
all his holy precepts, he has fulfilled all righteousness.
He's the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it,
again Paul says to the Romans. But he's not only answered the
Lord in terms of holy precepts, but also in terms of all those
terrible penalties, that dreadful punishment. The soul that sinneth
it shall die, and he has died. Died that just for the for the
unjust born, the curse of the broken law. Curse is everyone
that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law
to do them. We were those under the curse
and he has borne that curse for his people. This is the man Christ
Jesus, you see. He is the reason why he came
into this world, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem
them that were under the law. But then when we think of Christ
as God, oh how we see him as that one who is strong, that
one who is able to save his people, that one who is mighty in salvation. He's spoken of, is he not, there
in that great messianic Psalm, Psalm 89, In Psalm 89 and verses 19 and
20, God says, I have laid help upon one that
is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out
of the people. I have found David my servant. With my holy oil have I anointed
him. Ultimately the reference here
is to David's greatest son, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. He is that One who is the Holy
One of Israel, that One upon whom God has laid out, that One
who is able to save to the uttermost all them that come to God by
Him. Always a man, you see, he understands
us, he feels for us, He sympathises with us in all our human frailties. And yet, as God, He is mighty
to say that we cannot divide those two natures. We are not
to divide those two natures. We are not to think this is Christ
as God, this is Christ as man. He is ever always God-man. Two
distinct natures. and yet ever one person. This
is the mystery that we have to bow before but he is able to
say. Lord the Psalmist in that 118th
Psalm says the Lord is my strength and my song and he's become my
salvation. Here is the one then that he's
spoken of in this chapter. We see here the Lord Jesus Christ
in the mystery of his person. In his human nature a rod out
of the stem of Jesse, a branch that grows out of Jesse's root. He is the son of David and yet
he is also the eternal son of God. He is the root of Jesse, the
root of David. He is before Jesse, before David,
he is their creator. He is that one who is there at
the beginning of all things. That one, of course, who is in
the Godhead when we have that counsel of the Senator. Let us
make man in our image after our likeness. But then, turning to
the second part of our text in the second verse, We read here
of the anointing of the Spirit that comes upon Christ as He
comes to execute that work that the Father had given Him and
appointed Him to in the eternal covenant. And the Spirit of the
Lord, we read, 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. He is the Anointed,
you see. He is the Messiah. It is the
Christ who is being spoken of in these verses. And we read
there at the end of John chapter 3, And the Father giveth not
the Spirit by measure unto him. All we see All the persons in
the Godhead, the Father, giveth not the Spirit by measure unto
him who is the branch. The Spirit of the Lord shall
rest upon him. God doesn't give the Spirit by
measure. There is a great effusion of the Spirit upon him and it
is significant how the Spirit is constantly there throughout
the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Though His ministry
is self-effacing, we reminded ourselves of that in our second
hymn, that lovely hymn of Joseph Hartz. He doesn't draw attention
to himself, the Spirit, He comes very much as the Spirit of Christ.
He shall not speak of Himself, says Christ, when He promises
His coming there in those blessed chapters in John's Gospel, 14
and 15 and 16, where He repeatedly speaks of the coming of the Comforter.
He shall not speak of Himself. He shall take of Mine, says Christ,
and show it unto you. But how the Spirit is there throughout
the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. His birth, His conception. The
Holy Ghost shall come upon us, says the angel to Mary, His human
mother. The Holy Ghost shall come upon
us. The power of the Highest shall overshadow us. Therefore
also that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God. that holy thing, that human nature
was conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of a sinful woman
and yet that human nature was sinless his conception and then
of course at his baptising when he begins his earthly ministry
he submits to John's baptism in Jordan and the heavens are
open and the father speaks those words, this is my beloved son
in whom I am well pleased and the spirit descends upon him
the spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove he is anointed
in at his baptising with the Holy Ghost and then immediately
we are told how he is led of the spirit into the wilderness
and tempted of satan The Spirit is leading him, even in his temptations. And then after enduring those
cruel assaults of that great adversary of souls, having resisted
the devil, Christ, we are told, returns in the fullness of the
Spirit into Galilee. is upon him, he goes into the
synagogue in Nazareth where he was brought up, and the ministry
in the synagogue passes to him the book of the prophet Isaiah,
and he reads those words in Isaiah 61, the Spirit of the Lord is
upon him, because he has anointed him to preach the Gospel. You see, there is this constant
reference to the ministry of the Spirit with regards to the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him
who is the bride. The miracles are not the miracles,
also a manifestation of the anointing of the Spirit. Christ himself
says, if I by the Spirit do cast out demons, therefore the Kingdom
of God is come among you. He cast out demons by the Spirit. And then, when he comes to the
end, when he comes to die, Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 14,
through the eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God. The Spirit is there that he is
dying. It is not the Spirit who is incarnate,
it's God the Son who is incarnate. It's God the Son who is manifest
in the flesh, who dies, who is the saviour of sinners. But there
is that constant ministry of God the Holy Ghost. And so when he is raised again
from the dead, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by
the Spirit, says Peter. He is quickened by the Spirit.
When he is raised again on the third day, the Spirit of the
Lord shall rest upon him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding
we read. He has the Spirit of wisdom. He is of course the wisdom of
God. he is that one who is spoken of in Proverbs 8 as the wisdom
of God who of God is made unto us wisdom amongst other things
says the Apostle to the Corinthians but how the spirit of wisdom
is upon the Lord Jesus Christ and we see this we see this in
the way in which he is able to dispute we see him even as a
boy of 12 years of age disputing with the Jewish doctors in the
gospel in Luke chapter 2. You remember that occasion when
his parents had gone up to Jerusalem and as they returned they suddenly
realized he was not with the company and hastening back to
Jerusalem they find him there in the temple. in verse 45 of Luke 2 when they
found him not they turned back again to Jerusalem seeking him
and he came to pass that after three days they found him in
the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors both hearing them
and asking them questions and all that heard him were astonished
at his understanding and answer he as upon in that spirit of
wisdom and understanding that is spoken of here, and it's not
only evident there when he is but a child of 12 years of age,
but we see it of course subsequently in his ministry, how he can silence
those Jewish leaders, he silences the Sadducees, he silences the
Pharisees. In Matthew's Gospel, Matthew chapter
22, We see him disputing with the
Sadducees. Verse 23, the same day came to
him the Sadducees which say that there is no resurrection. They denied the resurrection
and now Christ silences these foolish men. He says to them,
as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read
that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God
of Abraham? and the God of Isaac and the
God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead,
but of the living. And when the multitude heard
this, they were astonished at his doctrine. But then he also
deals with the Pharisees. When the Pharisees had heard
that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered
together. And one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question,
tempting and saying, Master, which is the greatest commandment
in the law? Now Christ also silences this
man, silences the mourners. No man was able to answer him
a word we read at the end of that chapter. Neither doth any
man from that day forth ask him any more questions. He is able
to dispute with them. He is able to answer them, he
is able to silence them. He has upon him that spirit of
wisdom and understanding. But we see it not only in his
disputations, we see it also in the way in which he can discern
things, the way he discerns things. It continues here in verse 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. See, as such a spirit of discernment. Now, here in verse 3, shall make
him of quick understanding, in the margin we see that there
is an alternative reading, causing him to to smear or cause him
to scent shall make him of quick understanding. And Gill in his commentary makes
the remark that the reference here is to the spirit of discernment
that was granted to the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course we know
that as God he knows all things. But in the state of his humiliation
he tells us he doesn't know all things. of that day and that
hour, he says with regards to his coming again, thou art no
master. And he includes himself. But how we see that this one,
he does know men. And how does he know men? Because he is granted this spirit
of wisdom, this spirit of understanding, this spirit to discern. He needed
not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in
the hearts of men. It was said of the great Protestant
reformer, Martin Luther, in his ministry, in his preaching, that
he could preach as if he had been in the heart of a man. Luther
had that spirit of discernment, and so opened up God's words.
as to cause the people to see how significant and applicable
it was to their own case, their own condition. But how much more
was that the case with the Lord Jesus Christ? Remember the woman
at the well in John chapter 4, she says to her fellow citizens,
come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is
not this the Christ? She recognises him to be the
promised Messiah because he was able to discern everything about
her life. He had the spirit of wisdom,
the spirit of understanding. Again we see it when he's dealing
with the Pharisees, who so often oppose him. Again in that 22nd chapter of
Matthew, Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, Why tempt
ye me? He hypocrites. He perceived,
he discerned their wickedness. He knew that they were not genuine.
How the Lord, you see, is so discriminating in his own ministry. In Mark we see that so clearly
when he deals first of all with the rich young ruler. And then at the end of that 10th
chapter in Mark we see him dealing with blind Bartimaeus. And what
a difference. The rich young ruler comes to
him and asks what he must do, what must I do? What must I do
to be saved? And the Lord is able to discern
what lies behind that question. He sees that this man is one
who is still thinking in terms of law. He deals with him in
terms of the law. But how discriminating when we come to the end of the
chapter and Blind Bartimaeus comes, but he doesn't say, what
must I do to be saved? He comes as a beggar to Christ. Jesus says, son of David, he
cries, have mercy upon me. And the Lord Jesus Christ deals
with Bartimaeus so differently. He deals with Bartimaeus in terms
of the gospel. He discerns, he discriminates
the Lord Jesus Christ. He has upon him the spirit of
the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might. The spirit of counsel and might. He is of course that one who
is spoken of as a counsellor. Previously here in chapter 9,
We have that promise concerning His coming unto us. A child is
born unto us, a son is given. Again there we see the distinction
in the two natures. The son is not born. The son
is not born, the son is given. That is the eternal son of God.
That's the divine nature, that's His deity. But the child is born. There we see his human nature,
made of the seed of the woman. Unto us the child is born, unto
us the son he is given, and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince
of Peace. And amongst those names you see
he is the Counselor. He is the Counselor. He has the
spirit of counsel. and of might. We see him as that one who is
the great counsel of the great prophet, the great teacher, that
he's come from God. Even Nicodemus recognises that. Recognises that he's a teacher
come from God. No man can do these miracles
that thou doest, he says, except God. Oh yes, that great counsellor,
what does he reveal? He reveals the great eternal
purpose of God. All of the Scriptures are leading
up to Christ. Search the Scriptures, he says
to the Jews. In them ye think that ye have
eternal life. These are they that testify of
God. All is leading up to Him. He comes to unfold that great
purpose of God. in the salvation of sinners. He reveals to us that great covenant
of grace as he comes to seal it by the shedding of his own
precious blood. And how this one speaks with
authority, all what mighty words does this man speak. And how the people recognise
that at the end of the Sermon on the Mount The people were
astonished at his doctrine, we're told. For he spoke not as the
scribes and pharisees. No, he spoke as one who had authority. He had authority. He had authority
from God. He had a commission from God
and he executed. And he's anointed to that end.
Anointed here, we're told, with the spirit of counsel and might. The spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord. The spirit of knowledge. How the Lord Jesus Christ is
that one who comes to make God known. He comes to make God known
to sinners. No man has seen God at any time.
the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father. He
hath declared it. That's his ministry, is it not?
The declaration of God. The revelation of God. He whom God hath sent, says the
Baptist in that portion that we read at the end of John 3.
He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ
is speaking, God's words. My doctrine is not mine, he says.
My teaching is not mine. But here's that sentiment. I have not spoken of myself,
he can say. He doesn't speak of himself,
he doesn't speak in his own authority. This is part of his humiliation,
of course. as God's servant. He comes not
to speak of himself, he comes to speak the words of God. I
have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me. He
gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. And what is the point, the purpose
of this ministry? It is to make God known. It is to make God known. And
so in his great high priestly prayer as he addresses his father,
what does he say? This is life eternal. O this is eternal life, that
they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of
the Lord. He has that spirit of the fear
of the Lord, that reverence, that strict regard for the will
of God. That's what he came to execute,
not just to speak God's words, but he has a strict regard for
God's will. He walks all his days in the
fear of the Lord. Remember how Paul speaks of him
in Hebrews chapter 5, who in the days of his flesh, when he
had offered up supplication and prayers with strong crying and
tears unto God, and was heard in that he feared, though he
were a son, yet learned the obedience by the things that he suffered. He is heard in respect to the
things that he fears. He will not be deflected. His
great passion in life is to do the will of Him who has sent
Him and to finish His work. All that blessed unction then
that is upon the Lord Jesus Christ, that anointing of the Holy Spirit,
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 how that same spirit, this
is a remarkable thing, that same spirit that was upon Christ,
who is the head, is also upon his body. Oh, remember how we see it so clearly
in In the book of Psalms, in Psalm 133, the precious ointment
upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard
that went down to the skirts of his garments. And that precious
ointment, that anointing that is upon the head, even the Lord
Jesus Christ runs down runs to all his burden. If we are those
who know anything of Christ, we can only know Christ by that
gracious anointing of the Spirit. Doesn't John remind us of that? In that second chapter of his
first epistle, there in John chapter 2 at verse
20, You have an unction, he says, from the Holy One, and ye know
all things. That doesn't mean that those
who have that gracious anointing know all things with regards
to literature and science and all manner of learning. It's
a spiritual unction, it's a spiritual understanding. It goes on in
verse 27, the anointing, it's the same word, the unction which
you have received of him abideth in you, and you need not that
any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of
all things and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught
you, ye shall abide in him. This is what we need. We are
those, you see, who must be taught of God, if we know Christ, if
we know God. As we've said before, what is
real religion? It's a revelation from God. It's
what God himself is pleased to make known to us. Here then we see the Lord Jesus
Christ as that one who is favoured and blessed with the anointing
of the Spirit, but that same anointing comes to all who are
in him. But what is the the method whereby
God does these things. And again, in verse 4, we read, with righteousness shall
he judge the people 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. The rod of his mouth, he himself
is the branch or a rod out of the stem of Jesse, but here we
have the rod of his mouth. What is the rod of his mouth?
Well, remember now in the Revelation there is that two-edged sword
that proceeds out of his mouth. That is the Word of God. What
is the breath of his lips? That is the Spirit of God, is
it not? Here we are reminded then of preaching and of the
work of the Spirit. This is The method that God is
pleased to make use of in making known the Gospel. And then we
have further imagery used later here. We have that of the end
sign. In verse 10, remember. In that
day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for an
end sign of the people. To each other Gentiles seek and
his rest shall be glorious. All that ensign, that banner
you see, that is to be understood, is it not, in terms of the gospel. Verse 12, He shall set up an
ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcast of Israel
and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners
of the earth. This is the way whereby God calls
people to himself, is it not, by the Gospel, by that rod that
proceeds out of the mouth of Christ. And now the Spirit must
come, the breath of his lips, and make application of that
Gospel, that we might know this one who is spoken of here in
the text, the man who is called the Bride.
O God, grant that we might be those who do truly know Him and
trust in Him and embrace Him as our God and our Saviour. There
shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and the branch
shall grow out of His roots. The Lord grant His blessing upon
His Word, for His name's sake. listen to him 1149 the tune is
truant 767 what think you of Christ? give it a test to try
both your state and your scheme you cannot be right in the rest
unless you think rightly of Him, as Jesus appears in your view,
as He is beloved or not, so God is disposed to you, and mercy
or wrath are your lot.