Isaiah 65:25 → Isaiah 11:6-9

Isaiah 65:25 recycles the peaceable-kingdom oracle of Isaiah 11:6-9 almost verbatim — "The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox" (65:25) reproduces "The wolf will live with the lamb… and the lion will eat straw like the ox" (11:6-7), and the closing clause "They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain" (65:25) is a word-for-word repetition of 11:9 (Hebrew lōʾ-yārēʿû wəlōʾ-yašḥîtû bəḵol-har qodšî). In its original setting, Isaiah 11:6-9 describes the harmony of the predator/prey order under the reign of the Spirit-anointed shoot from the stump of Jesse (11:1-5) — the Davidic-root's kingdom in which creation's enmity is undone. Isaiah 65:25 deliberately draws that same oracle into the new-creation horizon announced at 65:17 ("behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth"), so that the messianic-kingdom peace of chapter 11 and the cosmic re-creation of chapter 65 are revealed to be one and the same eschatological reality: the reign of David's root is the renewed Eden. This is Redemptive-Historical Progression — Isaiah advances his own earlier oracle to its cosmic terminus, not a type escalating to an antitype but one prophetic vision unfolded into its full scope — undergirded by the Longitudinal Theme of new creation as Eden restored (the serpent's curse of Gen 3:14, "dust shall be the serpent's food," is reversed at 65:25's "the food of the serpent will be dust"). The telos: this peaceable kingdom is no abstract utopia but the personal reign of the crucified and risen Branch (Rom 15:12; Rev 5:6; 22:16), under whose rule the wolf lies down with the lamb because the Lamb who was slain now sits enthroned. To behold this is to long for it — to taste the safety of a world where nothing harms or destroys, and to find that safety is a Person, the Prince of Peace in whom the whole groaning creation will be set free (Rom 8:19-23), so that the new-creation hope becomes not merely awaited but desired.