The Meaning of Isaiah 61:5 Explained

Isaiah 61:5

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

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

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

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Isaiah 61:5 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Flocks and crops would again flourish in the Promised Land, and the Israelites would be so blessed that their former Gentile oppressors would even serve Israelite farmers.

Context Summary

Isaiah 61:1-11 - "the Acceptable Year Of The Lord"
Messiah's mission, Isaiah 61:1-3. At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so, we need to be anointed with the Holy Spirit, who rested so mightily on Him. The acceptable year is clearly that of Leviticus 25:8-13. Our Lord, when quoting this, stopped at the comma, Isaiah 61:2, because the day of vengeance is not yet. See Luke 4:19. Mark that it is only for a day! God not only delivers, but anoints and crowns.
Messiah's kingdom, Isaiah 61:4-9. In days yet future, the ruined cities of Palestine shall be restored. In a spiritual sense, we also may appropriate this promise. When we receive the Pentecostal gift, we also witness the restoration of the wastes, which our sins have caused in our own lives and in the lives of others. Let us clasp to our hearts Isaiah 61:7-9.
Messiah's joy, Isaiah 61:10-11. Jesus is the true bridegroom of the soul; and we may appropriate our side of these happy words. Note this combination of imputed and imparted righteousness. The one is put on as a garment, Isaiah 61:10; the other blossoms out from within, Isaiah 61:11. Oh, that from our lives God would cause righteousness and praise to spring forth! [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 61

1  The office of Christ
4  The forwardness
7  And blessing of the faithful

What do the individual words in Isaiah 61:5 mean?

And shall stand Strangers and feed your flocks and the sons of the foreigner [Shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers
וְעָמְד֣וּ זָרִ֔ים וְרָע֖וּ צֹאנְכֶ֑ם וּבְנֵ֣י נֵכָ֔ר אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם

וְעָמְד֣וּ  And  shall  stand 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural
Root: עָמַד  
Sense: to stand, remain, endure, take one’s stand.
זָרִ֔ים  Strangers 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
וְרָע֖וּ  and  feed 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, third person common plural
Root: רָעָה 
Sense: to pasture, tend, graze, feed.
צֹאנְכֶ֑ם  your  flocks 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: צֹאן  
Sense: small cattle, sheep, sheep and goats, flock, flocks.
וּבְנֵ֣י  and  the  sons 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
נֵכָ֔ר  of  the  foreigner 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נֵכָר  
Sense: foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreign.
אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם  [Shall  be]  your  plowmen 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: אִכָּר  
Sense: plowman, husbandman, farmer.
וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם  and  your  vinedressers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: כָּרַם 
Sense: to tend vines or vineyards, to dress vines or vineyards.

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