Isaiah, starting at chapter 61
{61:1} The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has
anointed me to proclaim good news to the humble; he has sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound; {61:2} to proclaim
the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all who mourn; {61:3} to appoint to those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called
trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be
glorified. {61:4} They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up
the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the
desolations of many generations. {61:5} Strangers shall stand and feed
your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your
vinedressers. {61:6} But you shall be named the priests of the LORD;
men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of
the nations, and in their glory you will boast yourselves. {61:7}
Instead of your shame [you shall have] double; and instead of dishonor
they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they
shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be to them. {61:8} For I,
the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give
them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them. {61:9} Their seed shall be known among the
nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed.
{61:10} I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful 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.
{61:11} For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden
causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD
will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
nations.
{62:1} For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's
sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a lamp that burns. {62:2} The nations shall see
your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called
by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. {62:3} You
shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal
diadem in the hand of your God. {62:4} You shall no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you
shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights
in you, and your land shall be married. {62:5} For as a young man
marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom
rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you. {62:6} I
have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold
their peace day nor night: you who call on the LORD, take no rest,
{62:7} and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes
Jerusalem a praise in the earth. {62:8} The LORD has sworn by his
right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give
your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink
your new wine, for which you have labored: {62:9} but those who have
garnered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have
gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. {62:10} Go
through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast
up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for
the peoples. {62:11} Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the
earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. {62:12}
They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and
you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
{63:1} Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from
Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the
greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to
save. {63:2} Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like
him who treads in the wine vat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress
alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them
in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is
sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing. {63:4}
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed
is come. {63:5} I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered
that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation
to me; and my wrath, it upheld me. {63:6} I trod down the peoples in
my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their
lifeblood on the earth. {63:7} I will make mention of the loving
kindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to
all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward
the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his
mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
{63:8} For he said, Surely, they are my people, children who will not
deal falsely: so he was their Savior. {63:9} In all their affliction
he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his
love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried
them all the days of old. {63:10} But they rebelled, and grieved his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself
fought against them. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old, Moses
[and] his people, [saying], Where is he who brought them up out of the
sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he who put his holy
Spirit in the midst of them? {63:12} who caused his glorious arm to go
at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to
make himself an everlasting name? {63:13} who led them through the
depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble?
{63:14} As the livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of
the LORD caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make
yourself a glorious name. {63:15} Look down from heaven, and see from
the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal
and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion
is restrained toward me. {63:16} For you are our Father, though
Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you,
LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
{63:17} O LORD, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden
our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes
of your inheritance. {63:18} Your holy people possessed [it] but a
little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
{63:19} We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those
who were not called by your name.
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