Isaiah 61:7

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Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Traditional

For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

Literal

Instead of your shame and dishonor, double, they will rejoice in their portion, so that in their land they will possess double; joy forever will be unto them.

Latin

Pro confusione vestra duplici et rubore, laudabunt partem suam; propter hoc in terra sua duplicia possidebunt, lætitia sempiterna erit eis.

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English

Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Notes

Isaiah 61:7

The people had faced God's wrath for their sins (Isaiah 40:2). Now, they would receive a double share of God’s blessing.

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