ULT ISA Chapter 61

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61 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me

because Yahweh has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to bind up the broken of heart,

to call out freedom to the captives,

and liberation to the bound,

2 to call out the year of favor of Yahweh,

and the day of vengeance of our God,

to comfort all mourners,

3 to set for the mourners of Zion:

to give a headdress to them instead of ashes,

the oil of joy instead of mourning,

a garment of praise instead of a spirit of dullness.

And one will call to them “oaks of righteousness,”

“the planting of Yahweh,”

that he might be glorified.

4 And they will build the desolations of eternity;

they will raise the former devastations.

And they will renew the cities of desolation,

the devastations of generation and generation.

5 And foreigners will stand and will shepherd your flocks,

and sons of foreignness will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

6 And you, you will be called priests of Yahweh;

“servants of our God” will be said to you.

You will eat the wealth of nations,

and you will boast yourself in their glory.

7 Instead of your shame, double,

and instead of dishonor, they will shout over their portion.

Therefore in their land they will possess double;

joy of eternity will be to them.

8 “For I, Yahweh, am loving justice,

hating robbery in burnt offering.

And I will give their recompense in truth,

and I will cut a covenant of eternity for them.

9 And their seed will be known among the nations,

and their offspring, in the midst of the peoples.

All the ones seeing them will recognize them,

that they are seed Yahweh has blessed.”

10 Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Yahweh;

my soul will be glad in my God.

For he has clothed me with garments of salvation;

he has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself with a headdress,

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth sends forth its sprout,

and as a garden makes its sowings sprout,

so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout,

and praise, before all of the nations.