Isaiah 61:8

For I Hashem love mishpat, 1 I hate gazel (robbery) in [obtaining] the olah (burnt offering); 1 and I will direct their work in emes, 1 and I will make a Brit Olam + 61:8 Gn 12:1-3; Isa 55:3 with them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7Instead of your bushah (shame) ye shall have a mishneh (double [portion]); 1 and for dishonor they shall rejoice in their chelek (portion): 1 therefore in their land they shall possess the mishneh; 1 simchat olam (everlasting joy) shall be unto them. 1

9And their zera shall be known among the Goyim 1 and their offspring among the Nations: 1 all that see them shall acknowledge them, 1 that they are the Zera Berach Hashem. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7And I will establish My Brit (covenant) between Me and thee and thy zera after thee in their dorot for a Brit Olam, to be Elohim unto thee, and to thy zera after thee.

2 Samuel 23:5Is not my Bais so with G-d? 1 Yet He hath made with me a Brit Olam, 1 ordered in all things, and sure; 1 for this is all my salvation, and all my chefetz (desire), 1 will He not make it spring forth (tzemach)? + 23:5 See Zech 3:8; 6:11-12 1

Psalms 25:8[Tet] Tov and yashar is Hashem; 1 therefore will He teach chatta'im in the Derech. 1

Psalms 33:5He loveth Tzedakah and Mishpat; 1 ha'aretz is full of the chesed Hashem. 1

Psalms 45:7Thy kisse (throne), O Elohim, 1 is olam va'ed; 1 the shevet (sceptre) of Thy Malchut 1 is a shevet of uprightness. 1

Psalms 99:4The Mighty King also loveth mishpat; 1 Thou dost establish equity, 1 Thou executest mishpat and tzedakah in Ya'akov. 1

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 →

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