and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill Him;

but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one.

Jacob is My servant, I will help him; Israel is My elect, My soul has accepted him; I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

And this shall be My covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and forever!

And having been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.

"The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

To preach the acceptable year of the LORD."

And John testified, saying, "I have beheld the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him.

I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'Upon whom you see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

But I have been made King by Him on Zion His holy mountain,

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness beyond Your companions.

Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, to seal up transgressions, to blot out iniquities, to make atonement for iniquities, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which is translated, the Christ).

"For truly they were assembled against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your companions."

Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth [in] joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek Him; their heart shall live forever.

The meek will He guide in judgment; the meek will He teach His ways.

Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live.

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The blind receive sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: that the blind regain sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor are evangelized.

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?

The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.

He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison house.

saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and [bidding] them that are in darkness, show themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths [shall be] their pasture.

Will anyone take spoils from a giant? And if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

For thus says the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes [them] from a mighty [man] shall be delivered; for I will plead your cause, and I will deliver your children.

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

[This is] the word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release:

And you, by the blood of your covenant, have sent forth your prisoners out of the waterless pit.

You shall dwell in strongholds, you prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of your captivity I will recompense you double.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."

Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I say to you, that everyone that practices sin is a slave of sin.

Therefore if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin [resulting] in death, or of obedience [resulting] in righteousness?

And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit [resulting] in sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

But I see a different law in my members, waging war with the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,

and they regain their senses [and escape] out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.