Isaiah 61:8 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

BSB

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ASV

For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Vers. 8, 9.) And I will give their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them will recognize them, that they are the offspring whom the Lord has blessed. LXX: And I will give their labor to the righteous, and I will establish an eternal covenant with them. And their seed will be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Robbery - All things gotten by injustice, though it be for sacrifice. Direct - I will lead them so, that they shall do all things in sincerity. Everlasting covenant - Though you have broken covenant with me, yet I will renew my ancient covenant made with your fathers, confirmed with the blood of Christ, and it shall be everlasting, never to be abrogated.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to do justly and love mercy better than thousands of rams; nay, that robbery is most of all hateful to God which is covered with this pretence, for it makes the righteous God to be the patron of unrighteousness.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I hate robbery for burnt-offering “Who hate rapine and iniquity” - The Syriac, and Chaldee prefix the conjunction ו vau, instead of the preposition ב beth, to עולה olah, which they render iniquity or oppression; and so the Septuagint, αδικιας. The difference lies in the punctuation; בעולה beolah, in a burnt-offering בעולה beavelah, in iniquity. The letters are the same in both words. Five of De Rossi’s MSS. confirm this reading.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
אֲנִ֤י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֹהֵ֣ב	'o.Hev	[am] loving	H157 →
מִשְׁפָּ֔ט	mish.Pat	justice	H4941 →
שֹׂנֵ֥א	so.Ne'	[I am] hating	H8130 →
גָזֵ֖ל	ga.Zel	robbery	H1498 →
בְּעוֹלָ֑ה	be.'o.Lah	with injustice	H5766 →
וְנָתַתִּ֤י	ve.na.ta.Ti	and I will give	H5414 →
פְעֻלָּתָם֙	fe.'u.la.Tam	recompense their	H6468 →
בֶּאֱמֶ֔ת	be.'e.Met	in faithfulness	H571 →
וּבְרִ֥ית	u.ve.Rit	and a covenant of	H1285 →
עוֹלָ֖ם	o.Lam	perpetuity	H5769 →
אֶכְר֥וֹת	'ekh.Rot	I will make	H3772 →
לָהֶֽם׃	la.Hem	to them

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:17
  Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Galatians 6:14
  But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- 1 Corinthians 1:31
  Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Micah 6:8
  He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Micah 7:18
  Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Through
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
leads to
- Jeremiah 32:40
  I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away…
Through
Psalms 11:7
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
leads to
- Revelation 22:4
  They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
Through
Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
leads to
- Romans 9:7–9
  Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Justice
the LORD states his own preference in the first person: "I love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering."

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah