Isaiah 61:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

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  • Isa 14:1-2 : 1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. 2 And the people will take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and maidservants: and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.
  • Isa 60:10-14 : 10 And 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. 11 Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious. 14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Eph 2:12-20 : 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, to create in Himself of the two one new man, so making peace; 16 And that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. 19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone;

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    10And 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.

    11Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

    12For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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    4And they shall build the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

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    6And the sabbath of the land shall provide food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who dwells with you,

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    1For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.

    2And the people will take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and maidservants: and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

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    8The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no longer give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your wine, for which you have labored:

    9But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

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  • Deut 24:19-21
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    19When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • 1 Sam 8:14-16
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    14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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    21They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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    19And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us? then you shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

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    13Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, '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;

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