Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 61 is the sixty-first chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 56-66 are often referred to as Trito-Isaiah.[1] In chapters 60-62, "three magnificent chapters", the prophet "hails the rising sun of Jerusalem’s prosperity".[2] According to Luke 4:17, Jesus, visiting the synagogue at Nazareth, was handed "the book of the prophet Isaiah" and "found the place" where the opening verses of this chapter were written. The New King James Version sub-titles this chapter "The Good News of Salvation".[3]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

  • Masoretic Text (10th century)
  • Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)[4]
    • 1QIsaa: complete
    • 1QIsab: extant: verses 1‑2
    • 4QIsab (4Q56): extant: verses 1‑3
    • 4QIsah (4Q62): extant: verses 1-2
    • 4QIsam (4Q66): extant: verses 3-6

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;
he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;[5]

Verse 2

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all that mourn;[6]

Verse 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.[7]

Cross reference: Isaiah 58:12

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oxford Reference, Overview: Bernhard Duhm accessed 6 September 2018
  2. ↑ Skinner, J., Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 60, accessed 12 September 2018
  3. ↑ Isaiah 61:1-11
  4. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Isaiah 61:1
  6. ↑ Isaiah 61:2
  7. ↑ Isaiah 61:4

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Christian

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