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ISAIAH
61.11
- And the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
- 21Thy people also shall be all righteous,
- They shall inherit the land for ever;
- The branch of My planting, the work of My hands,
- Wherein I glory.
- 22The smallest shall become a thousand,
- And the least a mighty nation;
- I the Lord will hasten it in its time.
- 61The spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
- Because the Lord hath anointed me
- To bring good tidings unto the humble;
- He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted,
- To proclaim liberty to the captives,
- And the opening of the eyes to them that are bound;
- 2To proclaim the year of the Lord's good pleasure,
- And the day of vengeance of our God;
- To comfort all that mourn;
- 3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
- To give unto them a garland for ashes,
- The oil of joy for mourning,
- The mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
- That they might be called terebinths of righteousness,
- The planting of the Lord, wherein He might glory.
- 4And they shall build the old wastes,
- They shall raise up the former desolations,
- And they shall renew the waste cities,
- The desolations of many generations.
- 5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
- And aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
- 6But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord,
- Men shall call you the ministers of our God;
- Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations,
- And in their splendour shall ye revel.
- 7For your shame which was double,
- And for that they rejoiced: 'Confusion is their portion';
- Therefore in their land they shall possess double,
- Everlasting joy shall be unto them.
- 8For I the Lord love justice,
- I hate robbery with iniquity;
- And I will give them their recompense in truth,
- And I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- 9And their seed shall be known among the nations,
- And their offspring among the peoples;
- All that see them shall acknowledge them,
- That they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
- 10I 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 victory,
- As a bridegroom putteth on a priestly diadem,
- And as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
- 11For as the earth bringeth forth her growth,
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