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Isaiah 61 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:2 - To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:3 - To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:4 - And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:5 - And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:6 - And ye are called 'Priests of Jehovah,' 'Ministers of our God,' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And in their honour ye do boast yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:7 - Instead of your shame and confusion, A second time they sing of their portion, Therefore in their land A second time do they take possession, Joy age-during is for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:8 - For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:9 - And known among nations hath been their seed, And their offspring in the midst of the peoples, All their beholders acknowledge them, For they are a seed Jehovah hath blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:11 - For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Jehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!
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