1  ^sThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,

because the Lord has ^tanointed me

to bring good news to the poor;¹

he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and ^uthe opening of the prison to those who are bound;²

2  ^vto proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,

^wand the day of vengeance of our God;

to comfort all who mourn;

3  to grant to those who mourn in Zion—

^xto give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,

^ythe oil of gladness instead of mourning,

the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;

^zthat they may be called oaks of righteousness,

the planting of the Lord, ^athat he may be glorified.³

4  ^bThey shall build up the ancient ruins;

they shall raise up the former devastations;

they shall repair the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

5  ^cStrangers shall stand and tend your flocks;

foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

6  ^dbut you shall be called the priests of the Lord;

they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;

^eyou shall eat the wealth of the nations,

and in their glory you shall boast.

7  ^fInstead of your shame there shall be a double portion;

instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;

therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;

they shall have everlasting joy.

8  ^gFor I the Lord love justice;

I hate robbery and wrong;⁴

^hI will faithfully give them their recompense,

ⁱand I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9  Their offspring shall be known among the nations,

and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;

all who see them shall acknowledge them,

that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

10  ^jI will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my soul shall exult in my God,

^kfor he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself ^llike a priest with a beautiful headdress,

^mand as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,

so the Lord God will cause ⁿrighteousness and praise

to sprout up before all the nations.

68  ^g“Blessed be the Lord ^hGod of Israel,

for he has ⁱvisited and ^jredeemed his people

69  and ^khas raised up ^la horn of salvation for us

^min the house of his servant David,

70  ⁿas ^ohe spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,

71  ^pthat we should be saved from our enemies

and from the hand of all who hate us;

72  ^qto show the mercy promised to our fathers

and ^rto remember his holy ^scovenant,

73  ^tthe oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

74  that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,

might serve him ^uwithout fear,

75  ^vin holiness and righteousness before him ^wall our days.

76  And you, child, will be called ^xthe prophet of ^ythe Most High;

for ^zyou will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

77  to give knowledge of salvation to his people

^ain the forgiveness of their sins,

78  because of the ^btender mercy of our God,

whereby ^cthe sunrise shall ^dvisit us^{1 e}from on high

79  to ^fgive light to ^gthose who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

to guide our feet into ^hthe way of ⁱpeace.”