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Isaiah 61:2

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

KJV

ut prædicarem annum placabilem Domino, et diem ultionis Deo nostro ; ut consolarer omnes lugentes,

Vulgate

καλέσαι ἐνιαυτὸν Κυρίου δεκτὸν καὶ ἡμέραν ἀνταποδόσεως, παρακαλέσαι πάντας τοὺς πενθοῦντας,

LXX

to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

ASV

לִ/קְרֹ֤א שְׁנַת רָצוֹן֙ לַֽ/יהוָ֔ה וְ/י֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם לֵ/אלֹהֵ֑י/נוּ לְ/נַחֵ֖ם כָּל אֲבֵלִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָבֵ֖ל
'bl
adjective · 8×
וֹ
v
noun · 53×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
נָקָם֙
nqm
noun · 17×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Luke 4:19 · echo
    "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
    Isaiah: the year of the Lord's favor — Jesus stops reading before judgment

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Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§714This is why Christ inaugurates the proclamation of the Good News by making his own the following passage from Isaiah:84 The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim…
The thirty æons are not typified by the fact that Christ was baptized in His thirtieth year: He did not suffer in the twelfth month after His baptism, but was more than fifty years old when He died. 1. I have shown that the number thirty fails them in every respect; too few æons, as they represent them, being at one time found within the Pleroma, and then again too many [to cor…
But let us inquire if the Lord has really given that testament which He swore to the fathers that He would give to the people. He gave it; but they were not worthy to receive it, on account of their sins.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. Christ himself read these words in the synagogue at Nazareth and declared "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears." Calvin shows that the anointing of the Messiah by the Spirit is the foundation of his prophetic, priestly, and kingly office. He comes to bind…

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 2:16 — Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
  • 2Cor 1:4 — Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
  • 2Cor 6:2 — (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
  • 2Cor 6:2 — (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
  • 2Thess 1:7 — And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
  • 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2Thess 2:16 — Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
  • Heb 10:30 — For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
  • Isa 1:24 — Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
  • Isa 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
  • Isa 34:8 — For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
  • Isa 34:8 — For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
  • Isa 35:4 — Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
  • Isa 35:4 — Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
  • Isa 49:8 — Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth
  • Isa 57:18 — I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
  • Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce
  • Isa 59:17 — For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
  • Isa 63:1 — Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
  • Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  • Isa 66:10 — Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
  • Isa 66:14 — And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
  • Jer 31:13 — Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
  • Jer 46:10 — For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for th
  • John 16:20 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
  • Lev 25:9 — Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
  • Luke 4:19 — To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
  • Luke 4:19 — To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
  • Luke 6:21 — Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
  • Luke 7:44 — And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the
  • Luke 21:22 — For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • Luke 21:22 — For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • Mal 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that i
  • Mal 4:6 — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
  • Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  • Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  • Num 36:4 — And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from
  • Ps 92:4 — For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
  • Ps 110:5 — The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.