Isaiah 61:1
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,
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Exodus 29:7Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
Psalms 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
Psalms 68:7God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
Psalms 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,
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 →