Isaiah 61:5
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.This verse in the real world
In what words
- אִכָּרʼikkâra farmer
- נֵכָרnêkârforeign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
- זוּרzûwrto turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specific
- רָעָהrâʻâhto tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); ge
- צֹאןtsôʼna collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
- עָמַדʻâmadto stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
- בֵּןbêna son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative re
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.