Isaiah 61:1
The 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,
Note Hebrew; LXX to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; cited in Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
The Lord God’s Spirit is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Note LXX and DSS add: recovery of sight to the blind
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Spirit
- Isaiah 11:2–5; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 59:21; Matthew 3:16; Luke 4:18, 19; John 1:32, 33; John 3:34
- anointed
- Psalm 2:6; Psalm 45:7; Daniel 9:24; John 1:41; Acts 4:27; Acts 10:38; Hebrews 1:9
- to preach
- Isaiah 52:9; Psalm 22:26; Psalm 25:9; Psalm 69:32; Psalm 149:4; Matthew 5:3–5; Matthew 11:5; Luke 7:22
- to bind
- Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:2; Psalm 34:18; Psalm 51:17; Psalm 147:3; Hosea 6:1; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- to proclaim
- The proclaiming of perfect liberty to the bound, and the year of acceptance with Jehovah, is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of the jubilee by sound of trumpet; and our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, plainly declares the typical design of that institution.
- Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9, 24, 25; Psalm 102:20; Jeremiah 34:8; Zechariah 9:11, 12; John 8:32–36; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:16–22; Romans 7:23–25; 2 Timothy 2:25, 26