Isaiah 61:3
Isaiah 61 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Isaiah 61:3 in the NABRE onlineTo appoint to them that mourn in Sion, and to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called the strong ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.
Reflection
A catalogue of exchanges: beauty for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness. God does not just remove the grief; he replaces it with something that lasts.