Isaiah 61:5
Good News Translation
My people, foreigners will serve you. They will take care of your flocks And farm your land and tend your vineyards.

New Revised Standard Version
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall till your land and dress your vines;

Contemporary English Version
They will hire foreigners to take care of their sheep and their vineyards.

New American Bible
Strangers shall stand ready to pasture your flocks, foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.

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And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.

Isaiah 14:1,2 Her time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob. . . .

Isaiah 60:10-14 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee. . . .

Ephesians 2:12-20 That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise and without God in this world. . . .

Context
The Year of the LORD's Favor
4And they shall build the places that have been waste from of old, and shall raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair the desolate cities, that were destroyed for generation and generation. 5And strangers shall stand and shall feed your flocks: and the sons of strangers shall be your husbandman, and the dressers of your vines.6But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.…
Cross References
2 Kings 25:12
But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

Isaiah 14:2
And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall subdue their oppressors.

Isaiah 56:6
And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:

Isaiah 60:10
And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.

Isaiah 61:4
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