Isaiah 61:2

Modern English Version

to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn,

Cross References

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, says: Ah, I will get relief from My adversaries, and avenge Myself on My enemies.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon everything that is proud and lofty, and upon everything that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He shall take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it.

Isaiah 34:2

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations and His fury upon all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter.

Isaiah 34:8

For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, and the year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; He will come and save you.”

Isaiah 40:1

Comfort, O comfort, My people, says your God.

Isaiah 49:8

Thus says the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you as a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to make them inherit the desolate lands,

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways but will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Isaiah 60:10

The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I have had mercy on you.

Isaiah 66:14

Then you shall see this, and 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.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then the virgin shall 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.

Jeremiah 46:10

For this is the day of the Lord God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, so that He may avenge Himself of His adversaries. And the sword will devour; and it will be satiated and made drunk with their blood; for the Lord God of Hosts has a slaughter in the north country by the Euphrates River.

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Luke 4:19

to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have listened to you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved. In this way they are always piling up their sins, but wrath has come upon them to the extreme.