Isaiah 61:5 “Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your…”

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

American Standard Version

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the strangers shall stande and feede your sheepe, and the sonnes of the strangers shall be your plowmen and dressers of your vines.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner [are] your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

Bible in Basic English

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

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Cross references

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

Isaiah 60:10–14 Ephesians 2:12–20 Isaiah 14:1 Isaiah 14:2

Isaiah 60:10–14 · BSB

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.

Ephesians 2:12–20 · BSB

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Isaiah 14:1 · BSB

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:2 · BSB

The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over th…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

6But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

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