Isaiah 61:1-3

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The Year of the Lord's Favor

61 ^(A)The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
    because the Lord has ^(B)anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;^[a]
    he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
    and ^(C)the opening of the prison to those who are bound;^[b]
²^(D)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
    ^(E)and the day of vengeance of our God;
    to comfort all who mourn;
³to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    ^(F)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
^(G)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
^(H)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, ^(I)that he may be glorified.^[c]

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Footnotes

Isaiah 61:1 Or afflicted
Isaiah 61:1 Or the opening [of the eyes] to those who are blind; Septuagint and recovery of sight to the blind
Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty

Isaiah 61:10-63:3

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¹⁰^(A)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
^(B)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself ^(C)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    ^(D)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹For 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 ^(E)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.

Zion's Coming Salvation

62 ^(F)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
    and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
^(G)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
    and her salvation as a burning torch.
²^(H)The nations shall see your righteousness,
    and all the kings your glory,
^(I)and you shall be called by a new name
    that the mouth of the Lord will give.
³You shall be ^(J)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
    and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴^(K)You shall no more be termed ^(L)Forsaken,^[a]
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,^[b]
^(M)but you shall be called ^(N)My Delight Is in Her,^[c]
    and your land Married;^[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
    and your land shall be married.
⁵For as a young man marries a young woman,
    so ^(O)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
    so ^(P)shall your God rejoice over you.

⁶On your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have set ^(Q)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
    they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
    take no rest,
⁷and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it ^(R)a praise in the earth.
⁸The Lord has sworn ^(S)by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give ^(T)your grain
    to be food for your enemies,
^(U)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
    for which you have labored;
⁹but ^(V)those who garner it shall eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and ^(W)those who gather it shall drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”^[e]

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates;
    ^(X)prepare the way for the people;
^(Y)build up, build up the highway;
    clear it of stones;
    ^(Z)lift up a signal over the peoples.
¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
    to the end of the earth:
^(AA)Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ^(AB)“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him.”
¹²^(AC)And they shall be called The Holy People,
    The Redeemed of the Lord;
^(AD)and you shall be called Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from ^(AE)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from ^(AF)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    ^(AG)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

²Why is your ^(AH)apparel red,
and your garments like his ^(AI)who treads in the winepress?

³^(AJ)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(AK)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[f] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.