Chapter 61
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;
Spirit
11.2-5 42.1 59.21 Matthew 3.16 Luke 4.18,19 John 1.32,33 3.34
anointed
Psalms 2.6 *marg:; Psalms 45.7 Daniel 9.24 John 1.41 Acts 4.27 10.38 Hebrews 1.9
to preach
52.9 Psalms 22.26 25.9 69.32 149.4 Matthew 5.3-5 11.5 Luke 7.22
to bind
57.15 66.2 Psalms 34.18 51.17 147.3 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.
42.7 49.9,24,25 Psalms 102.20 Jeremiah 34.8 Zechariah 9.11,12 John 8.32-36 Acts 26.18 Romans 6.16-22 7.23-25 2 Timothy 2.25,26
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
the acceptable
Leviticus 25.9-13 Luke 4.19 2 Corinthians 6.2
and
34.8 35.4 59.17,18 63.1-6 66.14 Psalms 110.5,6 Jeremiah 46.10 Malachi 4.1-3 Luke 21.22-24 1 Thessalonians 2.16 2 Thessalonians 1.7-9
to comfort
25.8 57.18 66.10-12 Jeremiah 31.13 Matthew 5.4 Luke 6.21 7.44-50 John 16.20-22 2 Corinthians 1.4,5 2 Thessalonians 2.16,17
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
beauty
12.1 Esther 4.1-3 8.15 9.22 Psalms 30.11 Ezekiel 16.8-13
the oil
Psalms 23.5 45.7 104.15 Ecclesiastes 9.8 John 16.20
the garment
10 Zechariah 3.5 Luke 15.22 Revelation 7.9-14
called
60.21 Psalms 92.12-15 Jeremiah 17.7,8 Matthew 7.17-19
that he
Matthew 5.16 John 15.8 1 Corinthians 6.20 Philippians 1.11 2 Thessalonians 1.10 1 Peter 2.9 4.9-11,14
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
49.6-8 58.12 Ezekiel 36.23-26,33-36 Amos 9.14,15
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
14.1,2 60.10-14 Ephesians 2.12-20
But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
named
60.17 66.21 Exodus 19.6 Romans 12.1 1 Peter 2.5,9 Revelation 1.6 5.10 20.6
called
Ezekiel 14.11 1 Corinthians 3.5 4.1 2 Corinthians 6.4 11.23 Ephesians 4.11,12
ye shall eat
23.18 60.5-7,10,11,16 66.12 Acts 11.28-30 Romans 15.26,27
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
your shame
40.2 Deuteronomy 21.17 2 Kings 2.9 Job 42.10 Zechariah 9.12 2 Corinthians 4.17
everlasting
35.10 51.11 60.19,20 Psalms 16.11 Matthew 25.46 2 Thessalonians 2.16
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
I the Lord
Psalms 11.7 33.5 37.28 45.7 99.4 Jeremiah 9.24 Zechariah 8.16,17
I hate
1.11-13 1 Samuel 15.21-24 Jeremiah 7.8-11 Amos 5.21-24 Matthew 23.14
I will direct
Psalms 25.8-12 32.8 Proverbs 3.6 8.20 2 Thessalonians 3.5
I will make
55.3 Genesis 17.7 2 Samuel 23.5 Psalms 50.5 Jeremiah 32.40 Hebrews 13.20,21
And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
their seed
44.3 Genesis 22.18 Zechariah 8.13 Romans 9.3,4
they are
65.23 Psalms 115.14 Acts 3.26 Romans 11.16-24
I 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 righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
will greatly
35.10 51.11 1 Samuel 2.1 Nehemiah 8.10 Psalms 28.7 Habakkuk 3.18 Zechariah 10.7 Luke 1.46,47 Romans 5.11 Philippians 3.1-3 4.4 1 Peter 1.8 Revelation 19.7,8
for
3 52.1 2 Chronicles 6.41 Psalms 132.9,16 Luke 15.22 Romans 3.22 13.14 14.17 Galatians 3.27 Philippians 3.9 Revelation 4.4 7.9-14 21.2
as a
49.18 Psalms 45.8,9,13,14 Jeremiah 2.32 Ezekiel 16.8-16 Revelation 19.7,8 21.2,9
decketh himself
Heb. decketh as a priest.
with her
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
as the earth
55.10,11 58.11 Song of Solomon 4.16 5.1 Matthew 13.3,8,23 Mark 4.26-32
so
45.8 62.1 Psalms 72.3,16 85.11