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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 61:5

And strangers, members of the Gentile nations who have been converted to the true God, shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers, voluntarily providing for the needs of the Church by the work and the time which they devote to the support of the ministry of the Word in its various forms.

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See also Isaiah 61:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 61:5. _STRANGERS SHALL - FEED YOUR FLOCKS_] Gentiles shall first preach to you the salvation of Christ, and feed with Divine knowledge the Jewish congregations....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND STRANGERS SHALL STAND - (See the notes at Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 60:10). AND FEED YOUR FLOCKS - The keeping of flocks constituted a very considerable part of the husbandry of those who dwelt in Pales...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 61 The King, Jehovah's Messenger: His People and their Salvation Song 1. _Jehovah's Messenger and His work (Isaiah 61:1) _ 2. _His people a kingdom of priests and their work (Isaiah 61:6) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a p...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STRANGERS. foreigners. THE ALIEN. an unknown people....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the sons of the alien_ Render with R.V. ALIENS (as ch. Isaiah 56:3)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Israel's priesthood among the nations, and the services rendered to it by the latter. The meaning of course is not that all Israelites shall minister in the Temple or that a separate sacerdotal order...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. FORTUNE TEXT: Isaiah 61:5-7 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowman and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men sh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. AND STRANGERS SHAL stand - (shall wait on you as servants, Isaiah 14:1; ) "an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to bin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Other nations represented as filling menial offices....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 61 This chapter shows how God will achieve his great purpose for all the...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 pri...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָמְד֣וּ זָרִ֔ים וְ רָע֖וּ צֹאנְכֶ֑ם וּ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD” Isaiah 61:1-11 _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 nee...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord. T...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And foreigners shall (i) stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. (i) They will be ready to serve you in all your needs....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Vines. Bishops were soon chosen from among the Gentiles. The Machabees subdued the neighbouring nations, 1 Machabees xv. 28._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    As the Lord Jesus was so well known to his people, by the tenderness of his Person and Character; so his Church had her features from her connection with her Lord, by which she was to be known also....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._And strangers shall stand. _He means that foreigners and strangers shall be ready to yield obedience to them; for, in consequence of their being at that time separated from the rest of the nations,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 61 AND 62. As Chapter s 50-53 presented Christ in His sufferings, chapter 61 exhibits Him in the full grace of His Person concerned in the blessing of Israel....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND STRANGERS SHALL STAND AND FEED YOUR FLOCKS,.... The several congregated churches of Christ, which shall be set among them, compared to flocks of sheep, as they often are; and which shall be fed wi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers. Ver. 5. _And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,_] _i.e., _ Shall be v...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They shall build the old wastes_ See on chap. 58:12. As this is evidently to be understood of gospel times, the meaning seems to be, that the establishment of Christianity in the world should repair...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken d...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    STRANGERS, viz. Gentiles, such as are not of, the natural race of the Jews, but Gentile converts. Or such as shall have no more than an outward profession, strangers to tho true work of grace. SHALL S...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 61:5 Strangers H2114 (H8801) stand H5975 (H8804) feed H7462 (H8804) flocks H6629 sons H1121 foreigner...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH ADDS HIS WORDS TO THOSE OF THE ANOINTED ONE (ISAIAH 61:5 A). It is not always clear in this chapter who is speaking. In Isaiah 61:1 and probably 4 it is the Anointed One. In Isaiah 61:8 it is Y...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,_ You know who it is that speaks these words, our Lord Jesus himself. Isaiah 61:1. Because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;_ These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ the prophet, looking forward to the tune of his coming into the world, put them into his mouth; and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the ca...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Two advents of Christ in one view. Kingdom blessing after the day of vengeance. Israel's restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: After the day of Christ's vengeance,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me._ Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measure...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me_ THE SPEAKER; PROBABLY THE SERVANT OF JONAH Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few, all...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 61:1 The Messiah will preach into existence his new, liberated people, who will pray into existence his new, redeemed world. ⇐...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VIII.—SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM (Isaiah 61:1;...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61:1-11. We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly desiring,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 2:12; Isaiah 14:1; Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 60:10...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Strangers — Gentiles, such as are not of the natural race of the Jews, but Gentile converts. Or, such as shall have no more than an outward profession. Stand — Ready to be at thy service. Flocks — The...

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