Isaiah 61
1THE Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which He anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are broken hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind:
2to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord and a day of retribution. To comfort all who are mourning;
3that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.
4And the wastes of old times shall be rebuilded; and former desolations shall be repaired, and wasted cities renewed which had lain in ruins for ages.
5And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks and foreigners shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.
6But you shall be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God. You shall eat the wealth of nations and for their riches be admired.
7Thus shall they again inherit the land; and everlasting joy shall be on their head.
8For I am the Lord Who love righteousness and hate the spoils of injustice; and I will give the righteous the fruit of their toil and make an everlasting covenant with them
9and their seed shall be distinguished among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of peoples. Every one who seeth them will know them, that they are a seed whom God hath blessed.
10And they shall rejoice in the Lord with joy.
Rejoice in the Lord, O my soul, for He hath clothed me with the mantle of Salvation, and with an under garment of gladness, He hath crowned me as a bridegroom with a crown and adorned me as a bride,
11with jewels, and like the earth blooming with flowers. And as a garden causeth its seeds to vegetate, so will the Lord God cause righteousness to spring up, and joy, in the presence of all nations.