Isaiah 61 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 61The Good News of Deliverance

1 shame was double

and dishonor was proclaimed as their lot,

therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;

everlasting joy shall be theirs.

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I will faithfully give them their recompense,

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 Isa 44.3; 54.3 Their descendants shall be known among the nations

and their offspring among the peoples;

all who see them shall acknowledge

that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.

10 Isa 12.1, 2; 49.4, 18; Rev 21.2 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my whole being shall exult in my God,

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 Ps 72.3; 85.11; Isa 45.23, 24; 55.10; 60.18 For as the earth brings forth its shoots

and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,

so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise

to spring up before all the nations.