Chapter 61.
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, to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all
that mourn, 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.
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.
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be
your plowmen and your vinedressers.
But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord.
Man shall call you the ministers of our God.
Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast
yourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.