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Isaiah 61:1-4  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

The Good News of Deliverance

61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me
    because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
    to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and release to the prisoners,(A)
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
    to comfort all who mourn,(B)
3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion—
    to give them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.(C)
4 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.(D)

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Cross references

  1. 61.1 : Ps 45.7; Isa 11.2; 42.7; 57.15; Lk 4.18
  2. 61.2 : Isa 34.8; 49.8; 57.18; Mt 5.4
  3. 61.3 : Ps 45.7; Isa 60.20, 21
  4. 61.4 : Isa 49.8; Ezek 36.33
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Isaiah 61:8-11  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

8 For I, the Lord, love justice,
    I hate robbery and wrongdoing;[a]
I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.(A)
9 Their descendants shall be known among the nations
    and their offspring among the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge
    that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.(B)
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my whole being shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.(C)
11 For as the earth brings forth its shoots
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
    to spring up before all the nations.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 61.8 Or robbery with a burnt offering

Cross references

  1. 61.8 : Isa 30.18; 55.3
  2. 61.9 : Isa 44.3; 54.3
  3. 61.10 : Isa 12.1, 2; 49.4, 18; Rev 21.2
  4. 61.11 : Ps 72.3; 85.11; Isa 45.23, 24; 55.10; 60.18
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