Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
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Exodus 29:7And you shall pour the oil of unction over his head. And so, by this rite, he shall be consecrated.
Psalms 2:6Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
Psalms 25:9O God, do not let my soul perish with the impious, nor my life with the men of blood,
Psalms 45:7The peoples have been disturbed, and the kingdoms have been bowed down. He uttered his voice: the earth has been moved.
Psalms 68:7Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.
Psalms 102:20Bless the Lord, all you his Angels: powerful in virtue, doing his word, in order to heed the voice of his discourse.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 61:1
In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type and figure of Isaiah's province, which was to foretel the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, ver. 1-3 . II. We think we find the glories of the church of Christ, its spiritual glories, described under the type and figure of the Jews' prosperity after their return out of their captivity. 1. It is promised that they decays of the church shall be repaired, ver. 4 . 2. That… Read the whole commentary →