Isaiah 61:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Isaiah 61:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Isaiah 34:8
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Luke 4:19
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

He that is the best expositor of scripture has no doubt given us the best exposition of these verses, even our Lord Jesus himself, who read this in the synagogue at Nazareth (perhaps it was the lesson for the day) and applied it entirely to himself, saying, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears (Luke 4:17, 18, 21); and the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, in the opening…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. acceptable year--the year of jubilee on which “liberty was proclaimed to the captives” (Is 61:1; 2Co 6:2). day of vengeance--The “acceptable time of grace” is a “year”; the time of “vengeance” but “a day” (so Is 34:8; 63:4; Mal 4:1). Jesus (Lu 4:20, 21) “closed the book” before this clause; for the interval from His first to His second coming is “the acceptable year”; the day of vengeance” will…