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 context, and it is better to take the rendering of the LXX. and the Targum, I hate robbery with violence, as referring to the spoliation which Israel had suffered at the hands of the Chaldæans.
I will direct their work in truth. — Better — the word for “work” standing, as in Leviticus 19:13; Ezekiel 29:20, for its reward — I will appoint their recompense in faithfulness.