I completed this translation about a year and a half ago but I still love it. Hebrew is so descriptive and the words provide more vivid pictures than English ever could. I tried to catch the vision that Isaiah was painting and ran with it a little and this is what I came up with.
"The Spirit of God is on me because he has empowered me to bring good news to those who have been humiliated by oppression, he sent me to bandage those whose hearts have been broken and dreams have been smashed, to proclaim complete freedom to captives and an opening of eysight to the blind.
To proclaim that the time of God's mercy is near and the day of the compensation of our God, when all wrongs will be made right is coming.
Comfort those who are in mourning. Raise up those who mourn in Zion. Give them glory instead of ashes, an oil of joy instead of mourning."
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