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The Prophecy
of Isaias 61
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord
hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek,
to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release
to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut
up.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the
day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:
To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them
a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment
of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be
called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting
of the Lord to glorify hint.
And they shall build the places that have been waste
from of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall
repair the desolate cities, that were destroyed for
generation and generation.
And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks:
and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen,
and the dressers of your vines.
But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to
you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall
eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride
yourselves in their glory.
For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise
their part: therefore shall they receive double in their
land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.
For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery
in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth,
and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.
And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and
their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall
see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which
the Lord hath blessed.
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall
be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the
garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice
he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown,
and as a bride adorned with her jewels.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the
garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the
Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before
all the nations. |