Isaiah 61:5
New International Version
Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.

New Living Translation
Foreigners will be your servants. They will feed your flocks and plow your fields and tend your vineyards.

English Standard Version
Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

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

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

New King James Version
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the foreigner Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

New American Standard Bible
Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

NASB 1995
Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

NASB 1977
And strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

Legacy Standard Bible
Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

Amplified Bible
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And foreigners shall stand and they shall herd their sheep, and the children of foreigners shall be farmers for them and vinedressers

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks, and aliens shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.

Contemporary English Version
They will hire foreigners to take care of their sheep and their vineyards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandmen, and the dressers of your vines.

English Revised Version
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Foreigners will come forward and become shepherds for your flocks, and children of foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.

Good News Translation
My people, foreigners will serve you. They will take care of your flocks And farm your land and tend your vineyards.

International Standard Version
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your land and dress your vines.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Literal Standard Version
And strangers have stood and fed your flock, | And the sons of a foreigner | [Are] your farmers and your vinedressers.

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

New American Bible
Strangers shall stand ready to pasture your flocks, foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers.

NET Bible
"Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

New Revised Standard Version
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall till your land and dress your vines;

New Heart English Bible
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Webster's Bible Translation
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Year of the LORD's Favor
4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. 5Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. 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.…

Cross References
2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

Isaiah 14:2
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 their oppressors.

Isaiah 56:6
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants--all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant--

Isaiah 60:10
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.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Isaiah 14:1,2
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob…

Isaiah 60:10-14
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee…

Ephesians 2:12-20
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: …

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Isaiah 61
1. The office of Christ
4. The forwardness
7. And blessing of the faithful














(5) Strangers shall stand . . .--i.e., like servants waiting for their master's orders. The implied thought of the whole passage is, as in the next verse, that all Israel is raised to the dignity of a priestly caste, leaving the rough work of the world to be done by foreigners, who stood on a lower level. (Comp. Ecclesiasticus 38:31-34.)

Verse 5. - Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks (comp. Isaiah 14:1, 2; Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 60:10). The Gentiles who join themselves with the Jews, and form with them one community, are constantly represented in the writings of Isaiah as occupying a subordinate position. In the New Testament, Jew and Gentile are put upon a par. Is the explanation that Isaiah assumes that the Jews generally will accept the gospel, and therefore, to some extent, retain their privileges in the new community, whereas, in fact, they rejected the gospel, and so lost their natural position (see Romans 11:7-20)? Or does Isaiah look onward to a later date? And is there to be a restoration of "Israel according to the flesh" upon their conversion, and a reinstatement of them in a position of privilege? Such a condition of things seems glanced at in Romans 11:23-29, and in Revelation 7:4-9; Revelation 14:1. The sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers. Not so much compelled, like the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:21-27), to perform menial offices, as undertaking them voluntarily out of good will.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Strangers
זָרִ֔ים (zā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

will stand
וְעָמְד֣וּ (wə·‘ā·mə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

and feed
וְרָע֖וּ (wə·rā·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

your flocks,
צֹאנְכֶ֑ם (ṣō·nə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

and foreigners
וּבְנֵ֣י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

will be your plowmen
אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם (’ik·kā·rê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 406: A plowman, husbandman

and vinedressers.
וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם׃ (wə·ḵō·rə·mê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 3755: To tend vineyards, dress vines


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