Isaiah 11 portrays a shoot arising from Jesse's apparently fallen line, endowed with the Spirit of the LORD and ruling with perfect righteousness, wisdom, and worldwide significance.

The fulfillment passages listed here (Acts 17:31) illuminate the Christian application summarized as "Judge in righteousness." The correspondence is meaningful within the New Testament portrait of Jesus, but where the New Testament does not explicitly quote this exact Isaiah verse as fulfilled, it is best described as a theological or messianic correspondence rather than claiming more precision than the biblical writers themselves state.