Isaiah 61:5
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Isaiah 61:5 in other translations
| BSB | Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. |
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| WEB | Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards. |
| ASV | And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers. |
| YLT | And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers. |
| DARBY | And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers. |
| BBE | And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers. |
| Webster | And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers. |
What does Isaiah 61:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 61:4-9
Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken down, and has no walls, like a house in ruins; but by the power of Christ's gospel and grace, it is fitted to be a habitation of God, through the Spirit. When, by the grace of God, we attain to holy indifference as to the…
Isaiah 61:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 61:5
- Isaiah 60:10-14
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. …
- Isaiah 14:1-2
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
- Ephesians 2:12-20
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; …
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Context
- Isaiah 61:4
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.
- Isaiah 61:5
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
- Isaiah 61:6
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.
Isaiah 61:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y estarán extranjeros, y apacentarán vuestras ovejas, y los extraños serán vuestros labradores y vuestros viñadores. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les étrangers se tiendront là et paîtront vos troupeaux, et les fils de l’étranger seront vos laboureurs et vos vignerons. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Fremdlinge werden dastehen und eure Herden weiden, und Söhne der Fremde werden eure Ackerleute und eure Weingärtner sein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et stabunt alieni, et pascent pecora vestra, et filii peregrinorum agricolæ et vinitores vestri erunt. |