The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.

For your shame [ye shall have] double and [for] confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the LORD hath blessed.

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp [that] burneth.

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.

Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

I have trodden the winepress alone and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

And I looked, and [there was] none to help and I wondered that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury, it upheld me.

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, [and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit within him?

That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, [that] they should not stumble?

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

We are [thine]: thou never barest rule over them they were not called by thy name.

I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring [with thee], and the books, [but] especially the parchments.

Of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood our words.

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.