Isaiah 61:2 Douay-Rheims

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1871 Reformed

acceptable year--the year of jubilee on which "liberty was proclaimed to the captives" (Isa 61:1 Co2 6:2). day of vengeance--The "acceptable time of grace" is a "year"; the time of "vengeance" but "a day" (so Isa 34:8; Isa 63:4; Mal 4:1). Jesus (Luk 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 not be till He comes again (Th2 1:7-9). our God--The saints call Him "our God"; for He cometh to "avenge" them (Rev 6:10; Rev 19:2). all that mourn--The "all" seems to include the spiritual Israelite mourners, as well as the literal, who are in Isa 61:3 called "them that mourn in Zion," and to whom Isa 57:18 refers.

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