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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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