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Isaiah 61:5

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְעָמְד֣וּve.'a.me.Duand they will standH5975 →
זָרִ֔יםza.RimstrangersH2114 →
וְרָע֖וּve.ra.'Uand they will shepherdH7462 →
צֹאנְכֶ֑םtzon.Khemflock[s] yourH6629 →
וּבְנֵ֣יu.ve.Neiand sons ofH1121 →
נֵכָ֔רne.KharforeignnessH5236 →
אִכָּרֵיכֶ֖ם'i.ka.rei.Khem[will be] farmers yourH406 →
וְכֹרְמֵיכֶֽם׃ve.kho.re.mei.Khemand vinedressers yourH3755 →

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Isaiah 60:10Foreigners 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 14:2The 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 60:10–14Foreigners 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 14:1–2For 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.1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.Ephesians 2:12–20remember 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.Isaiah 56:6And 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—Jeremiah 43:12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.Ephesians 2:12remember 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.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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