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;
02 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort
all that mourn;
03 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.
04 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.
05 And strangers shall stand and feed your
flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.
06 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.
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07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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