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, and hate robbery (though it were offered me) shall make their work, of faithfulness and make an everlasting covenant with them. From which reading it should seem, that what is said here, of the Lord's loving right and hating robbery, is only descriptive of his distinguishing excellencies of character; that He who is so known to his people hath made, and will make their works faithful in himself; and in his everlasting covenant. But I leave the Reader to consider what sense is the most probable.