Isaiah 56:1
Thus saith Hashem: 1 Be shomer over mishpat, and do tzedakah (righteousness); 1 for My Yeshu'ah (salvation) is near to come, 1 and My tzedakah to be revealed. 1
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Psalms 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a bar levav (pure heart); 1 who hath not lifted up his nefesh unto shahv (vanity), 1 nor sworn l'mirmah (deceitfully). 1
Psalms 85:9I will hear what HaEl Hashem will say; 1 for He will speak shalom unto His people, and to His Chasidim; 1 but let them not turn again to folly. 1
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean; 1 put away the evil of your doings 1 from before Mine eyes; 1 cease to do evil; 1
Isaiah 46:13I bring near My tzedakah; 1 it shall not be far off, 1 and My Teshuah (Salvation) shall not tarry; 1 and I will place Teshuah in Tziyon 1 for Yisroel Tife'arti (My Glory).
Isaiah 55:7Let the rasha forsake his derech, 1 and the ish aven his machshevot; 1 and let him return unto Hashem, 1 and He will have rachamim upon him; 1 and to Eloheinu, for He will abundantly pardon. 1
Hosea 12:7Therefore turn thou to Eloheicha; 1 be shomer over chesed and mishpat 1 and wait on Eloheicha tamid (continually). 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 56:1
After the exceedingly great and precious promises of gospel grace, typified by temporal deliverances, which we had in the foregoing chapter, we have here, I. A solemn charge given to us all to make conscience of our duty, as we hope to have the benefit of those promises, ver. 1, 2 . II. Great encouragement given to strangers that were willing to come under the bonds of the covenant, assuring them of the blessings of the covenant, ver. 3-8 . III. A high charge drawn up against the watchmen of Israel, that were… Read the whole commentary →