to say to the prisoners, Go out! To those who are in darkness, Be revealed. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all barren heights.
I will open rivers in bare places, and springs of water in the midst of valleys; I will make the desert for a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
And I will make blind ones go by a way that they did not know. I will make them go down into paths they never knew. I will put darkness into light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things to them and do not forsake them;
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me, because Jehovah has anointed Me to bear good news to the poor one. He has sent Me to bind up the broken of heart, to proclaim liberty to captives, and complete opening to the ones being bound;
So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry. Behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty. Behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed.
And I will raise up for them a planting place of name, and they shall not any more be of those gathered by famine in the land. And they shall not any more bear the shame of the nations.
And it shall be in that day, the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah shall flow with waters. And a spring will go forth from the house of Jehovah, and it will water the valley of Shittim.
And He shall stand and shepherd us in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He is great to the ends of the earth.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because of this He anointed Me to proclaim the gospel to the poor ones; He has sent Me” to heal those being broken in heart, “to proclaim freedom to captives, and to the blind ones to see again,” to send away in freedom the ones being crushed,
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. The one following Me will not walk in the darkness, not ever, but will have the light of life.
to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness into light, and from the authority of Satan onto God, in order for them to receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the ones being sanctified by faith into Me.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, so that he might eat the increase of the fields. And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6