King James VersionIsaiah61

Isaiah

1 The Spir­it of the Lord GOD is upon me; be­cause the LORD hath anoint­ed me to preach good tid­ings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the bro­ken­heart­ed, to pro­claim lib­er­ty to the cap­tives, and the open­ing of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To pro­claim the ac­cept­able year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to com­fort all that mourn; 3 To ap­point unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beau­ty for ash­es, the oil of joy for mourn­ing, the gar­ment of praise for the spir­it of heav­i­ness; that they might be called trees of righ­teous­ness, the plant­ing of the LORD, that he might be glo­ri­fied. 4 And 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. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plow­men and your vine­dressers. 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Min­is­ters of our God: ye shall eat the rich­es of the Gen­tiles, and in their glo­ry shall ye boast your­selves. 7 For your shame ye shall have dou­ble; and for con­fu­sion they shall re­joice in their por­tion: there­fore in their land they shall pos­sess the dou­ble: ev­er­last­ing joy shall be unto them. 8 For I the LORD love judg­ment, I hate rob­bery for burnt of­fer­ing; and I will di­rect their work in truth, and I will make an ev­er­last­ing covenant with them. 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gen­tiles, and their off­spring among the peo­ple: all that see them shall ac­knowl­edge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed. 10 I will great­ly re­joice in the LORD, my soul shall be joy­ful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the gar­ments of sal­va­tion, he hath cov­ered me with the robe of righ­teous­ness, as a bride­groom deck­eth himself with or­na­ments, and as a bride ador­neth herself with her jew­els. 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the gar­den causeth 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.