Isaiah 61:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Isaiah 61:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I the Lord love judgment - That is, ‘I shall delight in rendering to my people what is right. It is right that they should enjoy my protection, and be favored with the tokens of my kindness....
Isaiah 61:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (q) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. (q) I will not receive their offerings...
Isaiah 61:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a...
Isaiah 61:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

judgment . justice. I hate robbery, &c. Showing that the sacrificial System was in operation at the time when this prophecy was given. direct their work . make their recompense. in truth....
Isaiah 61:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. For I Jehovah love judgment. He not only confirms what he promised in the name of the Lord, but likewise exhorts the Jews to repent, and shews whence they ought to expect salvation, and w...
Isaiah 61:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. I hate robbery for burnt-offering "Who hate...
Isaiah 61:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For I the Lord love judgment, &c.— For I the Lord love justice: I hate stolen things in an offering; and I will give them their reward faithfully, and I will make with them, &c. The reade...
Isaiah 61:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. For I the Lord love judgment - justic...
Isaiah 61:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to...
Isaiah 61:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I hate robbery for burnt offering. — The Authorised Version follows the Vulg, and Luther, but the words, commonly applied as condemning the formal sacrifices of the wicked, do not fit in with the c...
Isaiah 61:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Acceptable Year of the Lord” Isaiah 61:1-11 Messiah's mission , Isaiah 61:1-3 . At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so...
Isaiah 61:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord....
Isaiah 61:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This verse seems to have no immediate connection with what went before, nor with what follows. I find, in an old Bible, the translation rendered somewhat different; For I the Lord, which love right,...
Isaiah 61:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I the Lord love judgment ,.... To do that which is right and just himself, and to see it done by others, and therefore he will right the wrongs of his people; and whereas the Jews, though they h...
Isaiah 61:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 8. For I the Lord love judgment, &am...
Isaiah 61:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For I the Lord love judgment I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. I hate robbery for burnt- offerings I hate all things gotten by injustice, though th...
Isaiah 61:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Office of the Messiah; The Prosperity of the Church. B. C. 706. 4 And they shall b...
Isaiah 61:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For I the Lord love judgment: q.d. They have suffered a great deal of hardship under their enemies, and I will do them right; for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. Or he gives...
Isaiah 61:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

For I, Yahweh, love judgment, I hate robbery with a burnt offering, And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known...
Isaiah 61:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 61:1-2 . 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 t...
Isaiah 61:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 61:1 . The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measu...
Isaiah 61:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me The Speaker; probably the Servant of Jonah Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few,...
Isaiah 61:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VIII .— SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD , WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM ( Isaiah 61:1-23 ; Isaiah 62:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 61...
Isaiah 61:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Year of Jubilee. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself.
Isaiah 61:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:21-24 ; 2 Samuel 23:5 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:5 ; Amos 5:21-24 ; Genesis 17:7 ; Hebrews 13:20 ; Hebrews 13:21 ; Isaiah 1:11-13 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; Jeremiah 32:40 ; Jeremiah 7:8-11 ; J...
Isaiah 61:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Love judgment — I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. Robbery — All things gotten by injustice, though it be for sacrifice. Direct — I will lead them so,...

Isaiah 61:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 61:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 61:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 61:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 61:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 61:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 61:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 61:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 61:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 61:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 61:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 61:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 61:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes