Isaiah 61:5

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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

American King James Version (AKJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

Webster's Revision

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

World English Bible

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

English Revised Version (ERV)

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Clarke's Isaiah 61:5 Bible Commentary

Strangers shall - feed your flocks - Gentiles shall first preach to you the salvation of Christ, and feed with Divine knowledge the Jewish congregations.

Barnes's Isaiah 61:5 Bible Commentary

And strangers shall stand - (See the notes at Isaiah 14:1-2; Isaiah 60:10).

And feed your flocks - The keeping of flocks constituted a very considerable part of the husbandry of those who dwelt in Palestine. Of course, any considerable prosperity of a spiritual nature would be well represented by an accession of foreigners, who should come to relieve them in their toil. It is not necessary to suppose that this is to be taken literally, nor that it should be so spiritualized as to suppose that the prophet refers to churches and their pastors, and to the fact, that those churches would be put under the care of pastors from among the pagan. The idea is, that it would be a time of signal spiritual prosperity, and when the accession would be as great and important as if foreigners were to come in among a people, and take the whole labor of attending their flocks and cultivating their fields.

Your plowmen - Hebrew, אכר 'ikkâr, from which probably is derived the Greek ἀγρός agros; the Gothic akr; the German acker; and the English acre. It means properly a digger or cultivator of the soil, or farmer Jeremiah 51:26; Amos 5:16.

And vine-dressers - The sense here accords with that which has been so repeatedly said before, that the pagan world would yet become tributary to the church (see the notes at Isaiah 9:5-7, Isaiah 9:9-10).

Wesley's Isaiah 61:5 Bible Commentary

61:5 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 churches with the word of God. Plow - men - Shall manage the whole work of God's spiritual husbandry.

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