to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor(A)
    and the day of vengeance(B) of our God,
to comfort(C) all who mourn,(D)

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Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.(A)

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For the Lord has a day(A) of vengeance,(B)
    a year of retribution,(C) to uphold Zion’s cause.

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18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal(A) them;
    I will guide(B) them and restore comfort(C) to Israel’s mourners,

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19     to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:19 Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6

13 Then young women will dance and be glad,
    young men and old as well.
I will turn their mourning(A) into gladness;
    I will give them comfort(B) and joy(C) instead of sorrow.

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Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming;(A) it will burn like a furnace.(B) All the arrogant(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch(F) will be left to them. But for you who revere my name,(G) the sun of righteousness(H) will rise with healing(I) in its rays. And you will go out and frolic(J) like well-fed calves. Then you will trample(K) on the wicked; they will be ashes(L) under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.

Then have the trumpet(A) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;(B) on the Day of Atonement(C) sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty(D) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee(E) for you; each of you is to return to your family property(F) and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee(G) for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.(H) 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee(I) everyone is to return to their own property.

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16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father,(A) who loved us(B) and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage(C) your hearts and strengthen(D) you in every good deed and word.

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and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven(A) in blazing fire(B) with his powerful angels.(C) He will punish(D) those who do not know God(E) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(F) They will be punished with everlasting destruction(G) and shut out from the presence of the Lord(H) and from the glory of his might(I)

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16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles(A) so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit.(B) The wrath of God has come upon them at last.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 Or them fully

For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”[a](A)

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8

who comforts us(A) in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,(B) so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

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