Add parallel Print Page Options

(A) The blind will see,
and the ears of the deaf
    will be healed.

Read full chapter

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened(A)
    and the ears of the deaf(B) unstopped.

Read full chapter

(A) Those who were lame
    will leap around like deer;
tongues once silent
    will shout for joy.
Water will rush
    through the desert.

Read full chapter

Then will the lame(A) leap like a deer,(B)
    and the mute tongue(C) shout for joy.(D)
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
    and streams(E) in the desert.

Read full chapter

The Good News of Victory

61 (A)(B) The Spirit of the Lord God
    has taken control of me!
The Lord has chosen and sent me
to tell the oppressed
    the good news,
to heal the brokenhearted,
and to announce freedom
    for prisoners and captives.

Read full chapter

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit(A) of the Sovereign Lord(B) is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed(C) me
    to proclaim good news(D) to the poor.(E)
He has sent me to bind up(F) the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom(G) for the captives(H)
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind