Isaiah 61:5
Isaiah chapter 61 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
Context
v.4And 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.
v.5This passage
v.6But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Isaiah 60:10
And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.
- Isaiah 14:1
For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.