Isaiah 61:8
For I am the Lord who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labour to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
2 Samuel 23:5For my house is not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire is, that the wicked should not flourish.
Psalms 25:8O Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.
Psalms 33:5I sought the Lord diligently, and he hearkened to me, and delivered me from all my + 33:5 Lit. neighbourhoods.sojournings.
Psalms 45:7The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.
Psalms 99:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 61:5-10
The Office of the Messiah; The Prosperity of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 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 ploughmen 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… Read the whole commentary →