--- title: "Isaiah 61 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Isaiah 61 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 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 brokenhear" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/61" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/61)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/61)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/61) Audio 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 captives, and the opening of the prison to *them that are* bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. 4 ¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien *shall be* your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: *men* shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7 ¶ For your shame *ye shall have* double; and *for* confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they *are* the seed *which* the LORD hath blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh *himself* with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth *herself* with her jewels.* 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. [Isaiah 60](/study/isaiah/60) [Isaiah 62](/study/isaiah/62) ## Commentary To verse 1 **The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,**as it were, to accomplish that which is foretold and promised in the foregoing chapter, whereby this appears to be either the Holy Ghost; See Poole "[1 Kings 18:12](/kjv/1-kings/18/12)"; or the Spirit of prophecy, i.e. the gift of prophecy; so we are often to understand by the Spirit, viz. *the gifts*; as the Spirit upon Samson, viz. the gift of valour, and courage, and strength: see [1 Corinthians 12:4](/kjv/1-corinthians/12/4), &c. Though the prophet may speak this of himself in person, yet that it is principally understood of Christ is evident, because he applieth this text unto himself, [Luke 4:18](/kjv/luke/4/18), being the first text he preached upon after his baptism, at which time the Holy Ghost did descend upon him in a visible shape, of which that John, who baptized him, was an ocular witness, [John 1:32](/kjv/john/1/32),[John 1:33](/kjv/john/1/33), and so making good the truth of this prophecy; and it is said to rest upon and dwell in him, according as it is prophesied, [Isaiah 11:2](/kjv/isaiah/11/2); [Isaiah 42:1](/kjv/isaiah/42/1). **Hath anointed me;**set me apart, i.e. both capacitating him with gifts, and commissioning him with authority; and yet more as it is applied to Christ, a power to make all effectual, from whence he hath also the name of Messiah among the Hebrews, and of Christ among the Greeks; nay, Christ alone among the prophets hath obtained this name, [Psalms 45:7](/kjv/psalms/45/7); and the prophet seems here to describe first who Christ is, and then what are his offices; this being the usual ceremony for the designing persons to the offices of prophets, priests, and kings, as hath been divers times shown, in all which respects it doth most eminently belong to Christ; so that the prophet doth hereby intimate both the final cause of his unction, viz. that he should execute these offices to which he was anointed; and the effect of it; that unction being upon him as the Head, it would flow from thence to his members, and so is an unction more peculiar to them; arid in a more general way it hath respect unto all the faithful, [2 Corinthians 1:21](/kjv/2-corinthians/1/21),[2 Corinthians 1:22](/kjv/2-corinthians/1/22); [1 John 2:20](/kjv/1-john/2/20),[1 John 2:27](/kjv/1-john/2/27). **To preach good tidings unto the meek:** being meant of Christ, this relates to his prophetical office. Literally this points at the good news that Isaiah brought of Cyrus’s being raised up to bring them out of Babylon, now they are become meek and humble; but if it be thus taken, it must be understood of his prophecies left behind him, for he died many years before the captivity. But they chiefly signify the good tidings of the gospel, that discovers Christ come in the flesh to redeem poor sinners from the captivity of sin and Satan, such as are meek, and tremble, or *afflicted*, as the word signifies, because ordinary *afflictions* make men *meek* and *humble*; called also the *poor*, and our Saviour expresseth it by that word, [Luke 4:18](/kjv/luke/4/18). To these the gospel, these **good tidings,**are brought, [Matthew 11:5](/kjv/matthew/11/5). Whether by *poor* you understand, 1. The Gentiles, void of all grace and salvation, or tenders of it, till now. Or, 2. Properly so called, *indigent* and needy persons, of which sort were the greatest number that followed Christ, of which the reason might be, because Christ preached the contempt of the world and riches, which the poor would therefore sooner embrace, and the rich be more likely to oppose. Or, 3. The poor in spirit. *To bind up*: now follow several particular expressions to describe the same thing that he mentioned before more generally: a metaphor taken from chirurgeons, that carefully and tenderly roll up a broken bone, [Hosea 6:1](/kjv/hosea/6/1); and this relates to Christ’s priestly office. **The broken-hearted;**the heart dejected and broken with sorrow. I am sent to ease their pains, whose consciences are wounded with a sense of God’s wrath. *To proclaim liberty to the captives*; those captives in Babylon, but principally to Satan, that they shall be delivered; and this appertains to Christ’s kingly office, whereby he proclaims liberty from the dominion and bondage of sin, and from the fear and terror of hell. See [Isaiah 42:7](/kjv/isaiah/42/7). *The opening of the prison to them that are bound*, i.e. supposing them to be in chains and fetters, yet they should be delivered, though in the greatest bondage. 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