Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
wolf . . . lamb--Each animal is coupled with that one which is its natural prey. A fit state of things under the "Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 65:25; Ezekiel 34:25; Hosea 2:18). These may be figures for men of corresponding animal-like characters (Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel 38:13; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 13:23; Matthew 7:15; Luke 10:3). Still a literal change in the relations of animals to man and each other, restoring the state in Eden, is a more likely interpretation. Compare Genesis 2:19-20, with Psalms 8:6-8, which describes the restoration to man, in the person of "the Son of man," of the lost dominion over the animal kingdom of which he had been designed to be the merciful vicegerent under God, for the good of his animal subjects (Romans 8:19-22).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 72:12-14
Psalms 89:47
Isaiah 9:5
Isaiah 11:9
Isaiah 35:9
Isaiah 65:25
Ezekiel 10:14
Ezekiel 34:25
Daniel 7:6
Hosea 2:18
Revelation 4:8
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