Atlas Biblica

    Isaiah · 11 verses

    Isaiah 61

    Every verse links to the people and places named in it, and to the passages readers connect it with.

    The chapter

    What happens here

    Atlas's own reading, written from this chapter and nothing else, and published only once a person has approved it. Each scene names the verses it covers; the names inside it link to the people and places they name.

    The restoration comes with an extraordinary change of occupations: strangers feed the flocks, foreigners work the fields and vineyards, while the restored people become priests, ministers, and heirs to the wealth of nations.

    Good news for the brokenheartedvv. 1–3

    The speaker is anointed to announce good news to the poor, bind up broken hearts, proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners, and name both the LORD’s favor and God’s vengeance. The mourners in Zion receive an astonishing wardrobe: beauty for ashes, joy in place of mourning, and praise in place of despair. They are called oaks of righteousness, planted by the LORD for his glory.

    A very grand change of employmentvv. 4–11

    The ruined cities are rebuilt, but the social arrangements are even more remarkable: strangers feed the flocks and foreigners become plowmen and vinedressers, while the restored people are called priests and ministers of God. Shame gives way to a double portion and everlasting joy because the LORD loves justice, hates robbery and iniquity, and promises an everlasting covenant. The final speaker bursts into rejoicing, dressed in salvation and righteousness; the comparison somehow places a priestly headdress on a bridegroom, while the LORD makes righteousness and praise grow before all nations.

    The text

    Read it

    Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Names the Hebrew and Greek put in the verse link to the person, place or people they name; the address beside each verse is a link to that verse, which is what a reader copies and shares.

    1. Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

    2. Isa 61:2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

    3. Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

    4. Isa 61:4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

    5. Isa 61:5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

    6. Isa 61:6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

    7. Isa 61:7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

    8. Isa 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

    9. Isa 61:9Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

    10. Isa 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

    11. Isa 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

    01 — Also here

    Who else the chapter reaches

    Names written in the English are linked in the text above. These are the ones that are not: an entity the Hebrew or Greek names under a spelling the translation does not use, or one reached only by an assertion about a verse of this chapter.

    Reached by an assertion Atlas extracted from a verse of this chapter rather than by a name written in it — a pronoun, a title, or a participant the sentence carries without naming. This layer is model-read and measured at 88.6–90.3% precision, and it is kept separate from the names above for that reason.

    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 215 passages were voted onto 11 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 1Luke 4:18–19“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
    • 1Luke 7:22So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
    • 1Isaiah 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
    • 1Matthew 11:5The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
    • 1Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
    • 1Isaiah 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
    • 1Zechariah 9:11–12As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
    • 1Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
    • 1Psalms 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
    • 1John 8:32–36Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
    • 1Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
    • 3Psalms 30:11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
    • 3Jeremiah 17:7–8But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
    • 3John 16:20Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
    • 7Job 42:10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
    • 7Zechariah 9:12Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

    Onward

    Keep reading

    Next chapterIsaiah 6212 verses.Named hereLORDEverything the graph connects to this name.BookIsaiahAll 66 chapters.Every bookThe Bible66 books, 1,189 chapters.