Isaiah 59:17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
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Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Psalms 94:1O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
Isaiah 11:5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
John 2:17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of yours house has eaten me up.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:17-21
The Kind Interposition of God; Evangelical Promises. ( b. c. 706.) 16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his… Read the whole commentary →