Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 61:5
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Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.
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Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
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And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
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Isaiah 61
3 to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
6 But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
7 Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
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