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Isaiah 61-63
New International Version
Isaiah 61-63
New International Version
The Year of the Lord’s Favor
61 The Spirit(A) of the Sovereign Lord(B) is on me,
because the Lord has anointed(C) me
to proclaim good news(D) to the poor.(E)
He has sent me to bind up(F) the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom(G) for the captives(H)
and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor(I)
and the day of vengeance(J) of our God,
to comfort(K) all who mourn,(L)
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown(M) of beauty
instead of ashes,(N)
the oil(O) of joy
instead of mourning,(P)
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting(Q) of the Lord
for the display of his splendor.(R)
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins(S)
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
5 Strangers(T) will shepherd your flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
6 And you will be called priests(U) of the Lord,
you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth(V) of nations,
and in their riches you will boast.
7 Instead of your shame(W)
you will receive a double(X) portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit(Y) a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy(Z) will be yours.
8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;(AA)
I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
In my faithfulness I will reward my people
and make an everlasting covenant(AB) with them.
9 Their descendants(AC) will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”(AD)
10 I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices(AE) in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,(AF)
as a bridegroom adorns his head(AG) like a priest,
and as a bride(AH) adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up
and a garden(AI) causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness(AJ)
and praise spring up before all nations.
Zion’s New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,(AK)
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication(AL) shines out like the dawn,(AM)
her salvation(AN) like a blazing torch.
2 The nations(AO) will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name(AP)
that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
3 You will be a crown(AQ) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will they call you Deserted,(AR)
or name your land Desolate.(AS)
But you will be called Hephzibah,[b](AT)
and your land Beulah[c];
for the Lord will take delight(AU) in you,
and your land will be married.(AV)
5 As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom(AW) rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice(AX) over you.
6 I have posted watchmen(AY) on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,(AZ)
7 and give him no rest(BA) till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise(BB) of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn(BC) by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain(BD)
as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat(BE) it
and praise the Lord,(BF)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”(BG)
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(BH)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(BI)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(BJ) for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:(BK)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(BL)
‘See, your Savior comes!(BM)
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”(BN)
12 They will be called(BO) the Holy People,(BP)
the Redeemed(BQ) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.(BR)
God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
63 Who is this coming from Edom,(BS)
from Bozrah,(BT) with his garments stained crimson?(BU)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(BV)
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”(BW)
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?(BX)
3 “I have trodden the winepress(BY) alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(BZ) them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;(CA)
their blood spattered my garments,(CB)
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;(CC)
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one(CD) to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(CE) achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.(CF)
6 I trampled(CG) the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk(CH)
and poured their blood(CI) on the ground.”
Praise and Prayer
7 I will tell of the kindnesses(CJ) of the Lord,
the deeds for which he is to be praised,
according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things(CK)
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion(CL) and many kindnesses.
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,(CM)
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.(CN)
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel(CO) of his presence(CP) saved them.[d]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(CQ) them;
he lifted them up and carried(CR) them
all the days of old.(CS)
10 Yet they rebelled(CT)
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(CU)
So he turned and became their enemy(CV)
and he himself fought(CW) against them.
11 Then his people recalled[e] the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,(CX)
with the shepherd of his flock?(CY)
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit(CZ) among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm(DA) of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(DB) before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,(DC)
13 who led(DD) them through the depths?(DE)
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;(DF)
14 like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest(DG) by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
to make for yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven(DH) and see,
from your lofty throne,(DI) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal(DJ) and your might?
Your tenderness and compassion(DK) are withheld(DL) from us.
16 But you are our Father,(DM)
though Abraham does not know us
or Israel acknowledge(DN) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
our Redeemer(DO) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(DP) from your ways
and harden our hearts(DQ) so we do not revere(DR) you?
Return(DS) for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your inheritance.(DT)
18 For a little while(DU) your people possessed your holy place,
but now our enemies have trampled(DV) down your sanctuary.(DW)
19 We are yours from of old;
but you have not ruled over them,
they have not been called[f] by your name.(DX)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind
- Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
- Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.
- Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior 9 in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them
- Isaiah 63:11 Or But may he recall
- Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called
Isaiah 61-63
King James Version
Isaiah 61-63
King James Version
61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17 O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
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