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Isaiah 61:4-11 English Standard Version (ESV)

4. They shall build up the ancient ruins;they shall raise up the former devastations;they shall repair the ruined cities,the devastations of many generations.

5. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

6. but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations,and in their glory you shall boast.

7. Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;they shall have everlasting joy.

8. For I the Lord love justice;I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9. Their offspring shall be known among the nations,and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;all who see them shall acknowledge them,that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;my soul 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 like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praiseto sprout up before all the nations.