Isaiah 61:1

New English Translation

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

Cross References

Psalm 102:20

in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted, and bandages their wounds.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them.

Psalm 2:6

“I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Psalm 22:26

Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!

Psalm 25:9

May he show the humble what is right! May he teach the humble his way!

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

Psalm 45:7

You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit – O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

Psalm 68:7

O God, when you lead your people into battle, when you march through the desert, (Selah)

Psalm 69:32

The oppressed look on – let them rejoice! You who seek God, may you be encouraged!

Exodus 28:41

“You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.

Exodus 29:7

You are to take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

Isaiah 29:19

The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:19

For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.

Isaiah 30:26

The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

Isaiah 32:7

A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

Isaiah 40:9

Go up on a high mountain, O herald Zion! Shout out loudly, O herald Jerusalem! Shout, don’t be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!”

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.

Isaiah 42:7

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

Isaiah 48:16

Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there.” So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit.

Isaiah 49:9

You will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons, ‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Isaiah 52:7

How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52:9

In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem.

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

Isaiah 59:21

“As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the Lord. “My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made them; that is how they came to be,” says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

Jeremiah 34:8

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

Jeremiah 52:33

Jehoiachin took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

Hosea 6:1

“Come on! Let’s return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Leviticus 7:35

This is the allotment of Aaron and the allotment of his sons from the Lord’s gifts on the day Moses presented them to serve as priests to the Lord.

Micah 3:8

But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

Matthew 11:5

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Matthew 3:16

After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

Luke 7:22

So he answered them, “Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

John 1:41

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

John 3:34

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Acts 10:38

with respect to Jesus from Nazareth, that God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Acts 4:27

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

Hebrews 1:9

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.”