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The Year of the LORD’s Favor

Isaiah 61:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
KJV
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
WEB
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
ASV
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
LSV
And strangers have stood and fed your flock, || And the sons of a foreigner || [Are] your farmers and your vinedressers.
YLT
And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner [are] your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.
DBY
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.
DRC
And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the dressers of your vines.
GNV
And the strangers shall stande and feede your sheepe, and the sonnes of the strangers shall be your plowmen and dressers of your vines.
JPS
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
LXXE
And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks, and aliens shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעָמְד֣וּ זָרִ֔ים וְרָע֖וּ צֹאנְכֶ֑ם וּבְנֵ֣י נֵכָ֔ר אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἥξουσιν ἀλλογενεῖς ποιμαίνοντες τὰ πρόβατά σου, καὶ ἀλλόφυλοι ἀροτῆρες, καὶ ἀμπελουργοί.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 60:10–14Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy. Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that…
  • Isaiah 14:1–2For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. The nations will escort Israel and bring…
  • Ephesians 2:12–20remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you…

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