61:8 For I, the Lord, love justice
and hate robbery and sin.
I will repay them because of my faithfulness; 1
I will make a permanent covenant with them.
61:9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,
their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will recognize that
the Lord has blessed them.” 2
61:10 I 3 will greatly rejoice 4 in the Lord;
I will be overjoyed because of my God. 5
For he clothes me in garments of deliverance;
he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. 6
I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would;
I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry. 7
61:11 For just as the ground produces its crops
and a garden yields its produce,
so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance 8 to grow,
and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations. 9