Isaiah 61:8

For I, Yahweh, love justice, and I hate robbery and violent injustice. 1 I will faithfully repay them, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 1

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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 shame you will have double; and instead of dishonor they will rejoice over their share. 1 So they will have a double share of their land; everlasting joy will be theirs. 1

9Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. 1 All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the people whom Yahweh has blessed. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

2 Samuel 23:5Indeed, is my family not like this before God? 1 Has he not made an everlasting covenant with me, 1 ordered and sure in every way? 1 Does he not increase my salvation and fulfill my every desire? 1

Psalms 25:8Yahweh is good and upright; 1 therefore he teaches sinners the way. 1

Psalms 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. 1 The earth is full of Yahweh's covenant faithfulness. 1

Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; 1 therefore God, your God, has anointed you 1 with the oil of gladness more than your companions. 1

Psalms 99:4The king is strong, and he loves justice. 1 You have established fairness; 1 you have done righteousness and justice in Jacob. 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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