Isaiah 61

English Standard Version

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]
⁴^(J)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^(K)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
    foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
⁶^(L)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
    they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
^(M)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
    and in their glory you shall boast.
⁷^(N)Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;
    instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    they shall have everlasting joy.

⁸^(O)For I the Lord love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrong;^[d]
^(P)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    ^(Q)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
⁹Their 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^(R)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
^(S)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself ^(T)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    ^(U)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 ^(V)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.

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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 61:8 Or robbery with a burnt offering

Jeremiah 16:19-17:14

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¹⁹^(A)O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
    ^(B)my refuge in the day of trouble,
^(C)to you shall the nations come
    from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
    ^(D)worthless things in which there is no profit.
²⁰Can man make for himself ^(E)gods?
    Such are not gods!”

²¹“Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that ^(F)my name is the Lord.”

The Sin of Judah

17 “The sin of Judah is written with ^(G)a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on ^(H)the tablet of their heart, and on ^(I)the horns of their altars, ²while ^(J)their children remember their altars and their ^(K)Asherim, ^(L)beside every green tree and on the high hills, ³^(M)on the mountains in the open country. ^(N)Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. ⁴You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, ^(O)and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, ^(P)for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

⁵Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man ^(Q)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,^[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.
⁶^(R)He is like a shrub in the desert,
    ^(S)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in ^(T)an uninhabited salt land.

⁷^(U)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    ^(V)whose trust is the Lord.
⁸^(W)He is like a tree planted by water,
    that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
    for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
    for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
¹⁰^(X)“I the Lord search the heart
    ^(Y)and test the mind,^[b]
^(Z)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

¹¹Like the ^(AA)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is ^(AB)he who gets riches but not by justice;
^(AC)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
^(AD)and at his end he will be a fool.

¹²A glorious throne set on high from the beginning
    is the place of our sanctuary.
¹³O Lord, ^(AE)the hope of Israel,
    ^(AF)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you^[c] ^(AG)shall be written in the earth,
    for ^(AH)they have forsaken ^(AI)the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Jeremiah Prays for Deliverance

¹⁴^(AJ)Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved,
for ^(AK)you are my praise.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys
Jeremiah 17:13 Hebrew me

Jeremiah 32:6-27

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⁶Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ^(A)‘Buy my field that is at ^(B)Anathoth, ^(C)for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ ⁸Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in ^(D)the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at ^(E)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

⁹“And I bought the field at ^(F)Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and ^(G)weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰^(H)I signed the deed, ^(I)sealed it, ^(J)got witnesses, and ^(K)weighed the money on scales. ¹¹Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. ¹²And I gave the deed of purchase to ^(L)Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of ^(M)the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in ^(N)the court of the guard. ¹³I charged ^(O)Baruch in their presence, saying, ¹⁴‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time. ¹⁵For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and ^(P)fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’

Jeremiah Prays for Understanding

¹⁶“After I had given the deed of purchase to ^(Q)Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord, saying: ¹⁷‘Ah, Lord God! It is ^(R)you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by ^(S)your outstretched arm! ^(T)Nothing is too hard for you. ¹⁸^(U)You show steadfast love to thousands, ^(V)but you repay the guilt of fathers ^(W)to their children after them, O great and ^(X)mighty God, whose name is the ^(Y)Lord of hosts, ¹⁹^(Z)great in counsel and ^(AA)mighty in deed, ^(AB)whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, ^(AC)rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. ²⁰You have shown ^(AD)signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, ^(AE)and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. ²¹^(AF)You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and ^(AG)outstretched arm, ^(AH)and with great terror. ²²And you gave them this land, ^(AI)which you swore to their fathers to give them, ^(AJ)a land flowing with milk and honey. ²³And they entered and took possession of it. ^(AK)But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them. ²⁴Behold, ^(AL)the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and ^(AM)because of sword and famine and pestilence ^(AN)the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. ²⁵Yet you, O Lord God, have said to me, ^(AO)“Buy the field for money ^(AP)and get witnesses”—though ^(AQ)the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”