³² The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.

²⁶ The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

² My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

⁹ He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

⁶ Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

⁷ Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

² To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

²² So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

²⁰ And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.