1The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.stylusLuke 4:18, Luke 4:19, Luke 4:18, Luke 4:19, Luke 7:222To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:stylusMatthew 5:4, Matthew 5:4, Isaiah 34:8, Isaiah 34:8, Isaiah 57:183To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.stylusJeremiah 17:7, Jeremiah 17:8, Psalms 30:11, Jeremiah 17:7, Jeremiah 17:84And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, that were destroyed for generation and generation.stylusIsaiah 58:12, Isaiah 58:12, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Ezekiel 36:335And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.stylusIsaiah 60:10, Isaiah 60:14, Isaiah 60:10, Isaiah 60:14, Isaiah 14:16But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.stylusExodus 19:6, Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:5, Isaiah 60:57For your double confusion and shame, they shall praise their part: therefore shall they receive double in their land, everlasting joy shall be unto them.stylusJob 42:10, Job 42:10, Zechariah 9:12, Zechariah 9:12, Isaiah 40:28For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.stylusPsalms 11:7, Psalms 11:7, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 9:24, Zechariah 8:169And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.stylusIsaiah 44:3, Isaiah 44:3, Psalms 115:14, Psalms 115:14, Acts 3:2610I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.stylusRevelation 19:7, Revelation 19:8, Revelation 19:7, Revelation 19:8, Philippians 3:911For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.stylusMark 4:26, Mark 4:32, Isaiah 58:11, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:32