8  your robes are all fragrant with ^mmyrrh and aloes and cassia.

From ivory palaces ⁿstringed instruments make you glad;

9  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;

therefore God, your God, ^shas anointed you

with ^tthe oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

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

18  ^y“The Spirit of the Lord ^zis upon me,

because he has anointed me

to ^aproclaim good news to the poor.

^bHe has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives

and ^crecovering of sight to the blind,

^dto set at liberty those who are oppressed,