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Isaiah 61:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
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Role in This Section
The oracle concerning Zion and the nations carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen…” at Isaiah 61:5 as part of “Ruins Are Rebuilt amid Priestly and Economic Reversal.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 61:4–9
Read Isaiah 61:5 with 61:4–9. By itself, “And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Ancient wastes rise, outsiders tend flocks and fields, the people are called priests, shame is reversed, and justice rejects robbery while descendants become recognizable.
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer tracks one step in Isaiah 61:4–9: The oracle concerning Zion and the nations carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen…” at Isaiah 61:5 as part of “Ruins Are Rebuilt amid Priestly and Economic Reversal.” Read the thought unit before assigning enduring truth or application.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Isaiah 61:4–9 — Ruins Are Rebuilt amid Priestly and Economic ReversalSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 61:4–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 61:4–9 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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