Isaiah 61:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.”
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“Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner <FI>are<Fi> your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 61:5 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
- Isaiah 14:2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
- Isaiah 60:10Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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