# Isaiah 61 [[Isaiah 60|←]] • [[Isaiah 62|→]] --- ### 1 The Spirit of the Lord God 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 bound; ### 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; ### 3 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. ### 4 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. ### 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien your plowmen and your vinedressers. ### 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. ### 7 For your shame double; and confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. ### 8 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. ### 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they the seed 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 with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth 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.