Isaiah 60-61

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60 ^(A)Arise, shine, for your light has come,
    and ^(B)the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
² For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
    and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
    and his glory will be seen upon you.
^3 (C)And nations shall come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your rising.
^4 (D)Lift up your eyes all round, and see;
    they all gather together, they come to you;
^(E)your sons shall come from afar,
    and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
⁵ Then you shall see and ^(F)be radiant;
    your heart shall thrill and exult,^[a]
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
    ^(G)the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
⁶ A multitude of camels shall cover you,
    the young camels of ^(H)Midian and ^(I)Ephah;
    all those from ^(J)Sheba shall come.
^(K)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
    and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
⁷ All the flocks of ^(L)Kedar shall be gathered to you;
    the rams of ^(M)Nebaioth shall minister to you;
^(N)they shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
    ^(O)and I will beautify my beautiful house.
⁸ Who are these that fly like a cloud,
    and ^(P)like doves to their windows?
⁹ For ^(Q)the coastlands shall hope for me,
    ^(R)the ships of Tarshish first,
^(S)to bring your children from afar,
    their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
    and for the Holy One of Israel,
    because ^(T)he has made you beautiful.
^10 (U)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and ^(V)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favour I have had mercy on you.
^11 (W)Your gates shall be open continually;
    day and night they shall not be shut,
^(X)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
    with their kings led in procession.
^12 (Y)For the nation and kingdom
    that will not serve you shall perish;
    those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
^13 (Z)The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
    the cypress, the plane, and ^(AA)the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
    and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
^14 (AB)The sons of those who afflicted you
    shall come bending low to you,
^(AC)and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
^(AD)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
^15 (AE)Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
    with no one passing through,
^(AF)I will make you majestic for ever,
    a joy from age to age.
^16 (AG)You shall suck the milk of nations;
    you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that ^(AH)I, the Lord, am your Saviour
    and your Redeemer, ^(AI)the Mighty One of Jacob.
¹⁷ Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
    and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
    instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
    ^(AJ)and your taskmasters righteousness.
^18 (AK)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    devastation or destruction within your borders;
^(AL)you shall call your walls Salvation,
    and your gates Praise.
^19 (AM)The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;^[b]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.^[c]
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and ^(AN)your days of mourning shall be ended.
^21 (AO)Your people shall all be righteous;
    ^(AP)they shall possess the land for ever,
^(AQ)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.^[d]
22 (AR)The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;
^(AS)I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.

61 ^(AT)The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
    because the Lord has ^(AU)anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;^[e]
    he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
    and ^(AV)the opening of the prison to those who are bound;^[f]
2 (AW)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour,
    ^(AX)and the day of vengeance of our God;
    to comfort all who mourn;
³ to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    ^(AY)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
^(AZ)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
^(BA)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, ^(BB)that he may be glorified.^[g]
4 (BC)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
    they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
    the devastations of many generations.
^5 (BD)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
    foreigners shall be your ploughmen and vine dressers;
^6 (BE)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
    they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
^(BF)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
    and in their glory you shall boast.
^7 (BG)Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;
    instead of dishonour they shall rejoice in their lot;
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    they shall have everlasting joy.
^8 (BH)For I the Lord love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrong;^[h]
(BI)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    ^(BJ)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
⁹ Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
    and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
    that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
^10 (BK)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
^(BL)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself ^(BM)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    ^(BN)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause ^(BO)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.