Isaiah 61

Which worship songs are based on Isaiah 61?

Authority — Aaron Shust (2025) Isaiah 61:1-2
The song's themes of proclaiming liberty and setting captives free resonate with the message found in Isaiah, where the anointed one is described as bringing good news to the oppressed and proclaiming freedom.
The Carpenter — Anne Wilson (2025) Isaiah 61:1-3
The song's themes of healing and restoration resonate with the message of Isaiah, where the anointed one is described as bringing good news to the brokenhearted and proclaiming freedom for the captives.
The Half Has Not Been Told — Brandon Lake (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The song's reference to being lost and found, as well as being blind and seeing, echoes the themes found in Isaiah 61:1, which speaks of bringing good news to the poor and proclaiming freedom for the captives.
Salvation Mountain — Lauren Daigle (2023) Isaiah 61:1-3
The song’s repeated exchanges of brokenness and sorrow for beauty, joy, freedom, and victory closely reflect Isaiah’s proclamation of liberty and God’s replacement of mourning and despair with beauty, gladness, and praise.
Pray for Me — Lecrae (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The song reflects the theme of being restored and made new, akin to the message of Isaiah 61:1, which speaks to the anointing to bring good news to the brokenhearted and proclaim freedom to captives.
The King Is In The Room — Phil Wickham (2025) Isaiah 61:1-3
The song's imagery of captives running free and broken hearts being made new aligns with the themes of liberation and healing found in Isaiah 61, which speaks of the anointing to proclaim freedom and comfort to the brokenhearted.
So So Good - Live — Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake, Elevation Worship (2026) Isaiah 61:1
The song reflects the theme of liberation and transformation, echoing the message of Isaiah 61:1, where the Spirit of the Lord is said to bring good news to the poor and bind up the brokenhearted.
Worship! — TAYA (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The song references the theme of God bringing new life and salvation, which aligns closely with the proclamation of good news to the poor and the healing of the brokenhearted found in Isaiah 61:1.
THANK GOD I'M FREE — ELEVATION RHYTHM, Lizzie Morgan (2026) Isaiah 61:1
The song's themes of freedom and liberation resonate with the proclamation found in Isaiah 61:1, which speaks of the anointing to bring good news to the oppressed and proclaim liberty to the captives.
Alive Again — ELEVATION RHYTHM, Charles Weems (2025) Isaiah 61:1-3
The themes of resurrection and emerging from ashes and graves resonate with Isaiah's proclamation of good news and comfort for those who mourn, reflecting a transformative renewal.
GOD DID! — Sons Of Sunday (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The imagery of being pulled up from the pit and having chains broken reflects the themes of liberation and healing found in Isaiah 61:1, where the anointed one is sent to proclaim freedom.
Broken Pieces — Phil Thompson & Grace Idowu (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The imagery of being restored and healed in the song reflects the message of Isaiah 61, which speaks of the Lord anointing to bring good news to the brokenhearted and proclaim liberty to captives.
What Grace Can Do — Cochren & Co. (2026) Isaiah 61:1
The song's imagery of healing and transformation resonates with the themes found in Isaiah 61:1, which speaks of bringing good news to the poor and binding up the brokenhearted.
Had It Not Been (Live) — The Belonging Co & Andrew Holt (2025) Isaiah 61:1
The imagery of being freed from chains and the grave resonates with Isaiah 61:1, which speaks of the anointing to proclaim freedom for the captives.
Flowers (with Jamie MacDonald) — Phil Wickham (2026) Isaiah 61:3
The transformation of ashes into flowers strongly evokes Isaiah’s promise that God replaces the signs of mourning with beauty and renewed praise.
Joy — Housefires (2026) Isaiah 61:3
The song’s paired exchange of brokenness for beauty and mourning for joy closely paraphrases Isaiah’s promise that God replaces ashes and grief with beauty and gladness.
Graves Into Gardens — Brandon Lake (2020) Isaiah 61:3
The bridge adopts Isaiah’s promised exchange of mourners’ ashes for a beautiful adornment, presenting restoration as God’s work.
I Prophesy — Brandon Lake (2023) Isaiah 61:3
The promise of beauty emerging from ashes and joy replacing barrenness closely reflects Isaiah's proclamation of divine restoration for those who mourn.
Turnaround — Brandon Lake (2023) Isaiah 61:3
The image of something beautiful and valuable emerging from ashes closely reflects Isaiah's promise that God replaces mourning and ashes with beauty and gladness.
God Who Redeems — Brian Free & Assurance (2024) Isaiah 61:3
The image of God producing beauty from ashes closely paraphrases Isaiah's promise that mourning and ruin will be exchanged for restoration and praise.
Help Me Believe — David Leonard (2023) Isaiah 61:3
The prayer for ashes to be transformed into beauty closely invokes Isaiah's promise that God replaces the signs of mourning with restoration and praise.
HALLELUJAH — Forrest Frank (2024) Isaiah 61:3
The song describes God replacing sorrow and pain with gladness, closely reflecting Isaiah’s promise that God gives joy and praise in place of mourning and despair.
People of Heaven — Phil Wickham (2023) Isaiah 61:3
The transformation of ashes into something creative and beautiful closely reworks Isaiah’s promise that mourning will be exchanged for beauty.
Reason I Sing — Phil Wickham (2021) Isaiah 61:3
The opening uses Isaiah’s distinctive image of God replacing mourning or heaviness with praise represented as a garment.
Exchange — Sons Of Sunday (2025) Isaiah 61:3
The song adopts Isaiah’s imagery of God replacing ashes and mourning with beauty and victory, presenting salvation as a transformative exchange.
Jesus I Need You — Hillsong (2025) Isaiah 61:3
The phrase 'beauty for ashes' directly references the transformative promise found in Isaiah 61:3, which speaks of God's ability to bring restoration and hope from despair.
Stand My Ground — Cochren & Co. (2026) Isaiah 61:3
The imagery of being picked up and dusted off suggests a connection to the biblical theme of restoration and comfort found in Isaiah, where God provides for those who mourn and brings them joy.
Hindsight (feat. Colton Dixon) — Tasha Layton & Colton Dixon (2025) Isaiah 61:3
The contrast between ashes and beauty invokes Isaiah’s distinctive image of God replacing the signs of mourning with restoration. The song uses that image while acknowledging that redemption may not yet be visible.
Bussin' — Bizzle & Childlike CiCi & Jonah Daniel (2023) Isaiah 61:3
The transformation of ashes into beauty directly uses Isaiah’s language for God replacing mourning and devastation with restoration.
Ficky Ficky — Mike Teezy (2022) Isaiah 61:3
The paired imagery of praise as a garment replacing a heavy spirit closely follows Isaiah’s promise of divine restoration for mourners.
Oluwa Ese — Ryan Ofei (2025) Isaiah 61:3
The transformation of ashes into beauty closely paraphrases Isaiah’s promise that God replaces the signs of mourning with beauty and joy.
God Be The Glory (Remix) — We Are Messengers & KB (2024) Isaiah 61:3
The chorus closely adapts Isaiah's promised exchange of ashes and mourning for beauty and joy, presenting redemption as God's transformation of grief.
Everything Is Changing - Live — The Belonging Co & Shantrice Laura (2022) Isaiah 61:3
The opening exchange of despair for praise directly invokes Isaiah's image of God replacing heaviness with praise as part of restoration for those who mourn.
FEAR OF THE LORD — Mitch Wong (2025) Isaiah 61:10
The request to be clothed in a righteous robe draws on Isaiah’s image of God covering his people with salvation and righteousness.

Isaiah 61 (King James Version)

¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

² To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

³ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

⁴ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

⁵ And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

⁶ But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

⁷ For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

⁸ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

⁹ And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

¹¹ For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.