Isaiah 61:5

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

And strangers will stand and pasture your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner will be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Latin

Et stabunt alieni, et pascent pecora vestra, et filii peregrinorum agricolæ et vinitores vestri erunt.

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

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