Isaiah 11:5

Updated Bible Version

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins,And faithfulness the belt about His waist.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, And faithfulness the belt about His waist.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Righteousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, and faythfulnesse the gyrding vp of his raynes.

Darby Translation
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

New King James Version
Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, And faithfulness the belt of His waist.

Literal Translation
And righteousness shall be the encircler of His loins, and faithfulness the encircler of His reins.

World English Bible
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

King James Version (1611)
And righteousnesse shalbe the girdle of his loines, and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines.

King James Version
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Rightuousnesse shalbe the gyrdle of his loynes, treuth and faithfulnesse the gyrdinge vp of his raynes.

Amplified Bible
And righteousness will be the belt around His loins, And faithfulness the belt around His waist.

American Standard Version
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

Bible in Basic English
And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

Webster's Bible Translation
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

New English Translation
Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips.

Contemporary English Version
Honesty and fairness will be his royal robes.

Complete Jewish Bible
Justice will be the belt around his waist, faithfulness the sash around his hips.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And iustice shall be ye girdle of his loynes, and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines.

George Lamsa Translation
Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his waist.

Hebrew Names Version
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

New Living Translation
He will wear righteousness like a belt and truth like an undergarment.

New Life Bible
He will wear a belt of what is right and good and faithful around His body.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

English Revised Version
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

Berean Standard Bible
Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.

New Revised Standard
Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, - And faithfulness the girdle of his reins;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

Lexham English Bible
And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

English Standard Version
Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

New American Standard Bible
Also righteousness will be the belt around His hips, And faithfulness the belt around His waist.

New Century Version
Goodness and fairness will give him strength, like a belt around his waist.

Good News Translation
He will rule his people with justice and integrity.

Christian Standard Bible®
Righteousness will be a belt around His loins; faithfulness will be a belt around His waist.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And riytfulnesse schal be the girdil of hise leendis, and feith schal be the girdyng of hise reynes.

Revised Standard Version
Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

Young's Literal Translation
And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.

Contextual Overview

¹ And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. ² And the Spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. ³ And his delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; ⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. ⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. ⁶ And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat; and the calf and the young lion shall grow fat together; and a little child shall lead them. ⁷ And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And the nursing child shall play on the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. ⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

righteousness: Isaiah 59:17, Psalms 93:1, 2 Corinthians 6:7, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 4:1, Revelation 1:13

and faithfulness: Isaiah 25:1, Hosea 2:20, Hebrews 2:17, 1 John 1:9, Revelation 3:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:4 - a girdle Exodus 28:8 - curious Exodus 39:5 - curious 2 Samuel 23:3 - must be just 1 Kings 10:9 - to do Job 12:21 - weakeneth the strength of the mighty Psalms 9:8 - General Isaiah 5:27 - neither Jeremiah 33:6 - and will Daniel 10:5 - loins Luke 12:35 - your loins 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God 1 Corinthians 10:13 - but Galatians 5:15 - General 1 Peter 1:13 - gird

Cross-References

Genesis 11:13
and Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber:

Genesis 11:23
and Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah:

Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to its [Sodom's] cry, which has come to me; and if not, I will know.

Exodus 3:8
and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 19:11
and be ready against the third day; for the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on mount Sinai.

Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Exodus 19:20
And Yahweh came down on mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Psalms 11:4
Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh, his throne is in heaven; His eyes look at, his eyelids try, the sons of man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,.... He shall be adorned with it, strengthened by it, and ready at all times to perform it; he loved righteousness, and did acts of righteousness throughout the whole course of his life; and, by his active and passive obedience, wrought out an everlasting righteousness for his people; he is a King that reigns in righteousness, righteousness is the sceptre of his kingdom; all his administrations of government are righteous; just and true are all his ways:

and faithfulness the girdle of his reins; he was faithful to God, that appointed him as King and Head of the church; faithful as a Prophet, in declaring his mind and will; and is a faithful High Priest, as well as a merciful one. The Targum, interprets this of righteous and faithful men, thus,

"and the righteous shall be round about him, and they that work (the work) of faith shall draw nigh unto him;''

but it is said of a single person, of the Messiah only, to whom it properly belongs.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And righteousness shall be the gridle of his loins - The sense of this verse is plain. He will always exhibit himself as a just and faithful king. “The girdle of the loins” refers to the cincture, or band, with which the ancients girded themselves. A part of their dress consisted of an outward, loose, flowing robe. This robe it was necessary to gird up, or to confine close to the body in active labor, or in running; and the meaning of the figure used here is, probably, that the virtues of righteousness and justice would adhere to him as closely and inseparably as the garment does to the body to which it was bound. The figure of representing the virtues as clothing, or describing them as parts of dress with which we are invested, is common in the Scriptures:

I put on righteousness, and it clothes me;

My judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

Job 29:14.

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,

And as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 61:10.

Compare Revelation 19:8, and Paul’s beautiful description in Ephesians 6:13-17. In like manner, vice and wickedness are sometimes represented as so closely adhering to a man as to be a part of his very clothing; Psalms 109:18-19 :

He clothed himself with cursing, like as with a garment.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,

And for a girdle, wherewith he is girded continually.

The Chaldee renders this, ‘And the just shall be round about him on every side - סחור סחור s^ehôr s^ehôr - and the servants of truth shall come near to him.’ The idea is, that he shall be distinguished for justice and truth, and that a zeal for these shall make him strong and active in executing the purposes of his reign. This closes the description of the “personal” qualities of the Messiah. The account of the effects of his reign follows in the subsequent verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 11:5. The girdle - "The cincture"] All the ancient Versions, except that of Symmachus, have two different words for girdle in the two hemistichs. It is not probable that Isaiah would have repeated אזור azer, when a synonymous word so obvious as חגור chagor occurred. The tautology seems to have arisen from the mistake of some transcriber. The meaning of this verse is, that a zeal for justice and truth shall make him active and strong in executing the great work which he shall undertake. See note on Isaiah 5:27.