the Second Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UIsaya 61:8
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BridgewayEncyclopedias:
- InternationalDevotionals:
- EveryBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I the Lord: Psalms 11:7, Psalms 33:5, Psalms 37:28, Psalms 45:7, Psalms 99:4, Jeremiah 9:24, Zechariah 8:16, Zechariah 8:17
I hate: Isaiah 1:11-13, 1 Samuel 15:21-24, Jeremiah 7:8-11, Amos 5:21-24, Matthew 23:14
I will direct: Psalms 25:8-12, Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 3:6, Proverbs 8:20, 2 Thessalonians 3:5
I will make: Isaiah 55:3, Genesis 17:7, 2 Samuel 23:5, Psalms 50:5, Jeremiah 32:40, Hebrews 13:20, Hebrews 13:21
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:18 - any vow Psalms 4:5 - Offer Proverbs 15:8 - sacrifice Isaiah 1:14 - my soul Malachi 2:12 - and him Matthew 27:6 - to put Acts 11:14 - all Acts 24:25 - righteousness Hebrews 1:9 - loved
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For I the Lord love judgment,.... To do that which is right and just himself, and to see it done by others, and therefore he will right the wrongs of his people; and whereas the Jews, though they have justly suffered his vengeance for their sins, yet being reproached and abused beyond measure by the Gentiles, among whom they are dispersed; the Lord will look in mercy upon them, and will deliver and save them, and bestow favours plentifully on them, as in the preceding verse: or the Lord loves strict justice and real righteousness, and will not be put off with an imperfect righteousness in the room of a perfect one, and much less an insincere and hypocritical one, such as that of the unbelieving Jews, the pharisaical sect of them; nothing less is acceptable to God than a perfect righteousness, which is adequate to the demands of law and justice; and such a righteousness is not to be found among men, only in his Son Jesus Christ, and with which he is well pleased, Isaiah 42:21:
I hate robbery for burnt offering; that which is stolen, though it be converted into a burnt offering: or, "with a burnt offering" c; all immorality, this being put for the whole, along with ceremonial sacrifices; as if it could be atoned for by them, or would be connived at on account of them: or,
by burnt offering; expiation of theft, or any other sin, by the sacrifices of the law, being offered up without faith in Christ; and especially since the great sacrifice, the antitype of them, is offered up; and therefore God will have no more offered up, they are displeasing and hateful to him, Isaiah 1:12:
and I will direct their work in truth; appoint them work and service of a spiritual nature, and direct them, and enable them to perform it in spirit and in truth, in opposition to the carnal and shadowy ordinances of the ceremonial law; see John 4:23:
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them; that is, renew the everlasting covenant of grace with them, make it manifest unto them; apply the grace and bestow the blessings of it to and on them,
Romans 11:25.
c גזל בעולה "rapinam conjunctam holocausto", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For I the Lord love judgment - That is, ‘I shall delight in rendering to my people what is right. It is right that they should enjoy my protection, and be favored with the tokens of my kindness. Loving justice and right, therefore, I will confer on them the privileges and blessings which they ought to enjoy, and which will be a public expression of my favor and love.’
I hate robbery for burnt-offering - There has been great variety in the interpretation of this phrase. Lowth renders it, ‘Who hate rapine and iniquity.’ Noyes, ‘I hate rapine and iniquity.’ Jerome, as in our translation, Et odio habens rapinam in holocausto. The Septuagint, Μισῶν ἁρπάγματα ἐξ ἀδικίας Misōn harpagmata ech adikias - ‘Hating the spoils of injustice.’ The Chaldee, ‘Far from before me be deceit and violence.’ The Syriac, ‘I hate rapine and iniquity.’ This variety of interpretation has arisen from the different views taken of the Hebrew בעולה be‛ôlâh. The Syriac evidently prefixed the conjunction, ו (v), “and,” instead of the preposition, ב (b), “with” or “for”; and, perhaps, also the Septuagint so read it. But this change, though slight, is not necessary in order to give a consistent rendering to the passage. The connection does not necessarily lead us to suppose that any reference would be made to ‘burnt-offering,’ and to the improper manner in which such offerings were made; but the idea is rather, that God hated rapine and sin; he hateth such acts as those by which his people had been removed from their land, and subjected to the evils of a long and painful captivity. And this is undoubtedly the sense of the passage. The Hebrew word עולה ‛ôlâh, usually without the ,ו means properly “a holocaust,” or “what is made to ascend” (from עלה ‛âlâh, to ascend) from an altar. But the word here is the construct form for עולה ‛avı̂lâh, “evil, wickedness”; whence our word “evil” (see Job 24:20; Psalms 107:42). And the sense here is, hate rapine or plunder (גזל gāzēl) with iniquity;’ that is, accompanied, as it always is, with iniquity and sin. And hating that as I do, I will vindicate my people who have been plundered in this way; and who have been borne into captivity, accompanied with deeds of violence and sin.
And I will direct their work in truth - literally, ‘I will give them work in truth or faithfulness;’ that is, I will give them the reward of their work faithfully. They shall be amply recompensed for all that they have done and suffered in my cause.
And I will make - (See the notes at Isaiah 55:3).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 61:8. I hate robbery for burnt-offering - "Who hate rapine and iniquity"] The Syriac, and Chaldee prefix the conjunction ו vau, instead of the preposition ב beth, to עולה olah, which they render iniquity or oppression; and so the Septuagint, αδικιας. The difference lies in the punctuation; בעולה beolah, in a burnt-offering בעולה beavelah, in iniquity. The letters are the same in both words. Five of De Rossi's MSS. confirm this reading.