Isaiah 61:8 “For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My fait…”

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

“For I, the LORD, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

American Standard Version

For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I the Lord loue iudgement and hate robberie for burnt offering, and I wil direct their worke in trueth, and will make an euerlasting couenant with them.

Darby Translation

For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong; and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Young's Literal Translation

For I [am] Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

Bible in Basic English

For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.

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Cross references

“I the Lord”

Psalm 11:7 Jeremiah 9:24 Psalm 37:28 Psalm 99:4 Psalm 33:5 Psalm 45:7

Psalm 11:7 · BSB

For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

Jeremiah 9:24 · BSB

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

Psalm 37:28 · BSB

For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.

Psalm 99:4 · BSB

The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalm 33:5 · BSB

The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.

Psalm 45:7 · BSB

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

“I hate”

1 Samuel 15:21–24 Isaiah 1:11–13 Jeremiah 7:8–11 Amos 5:21–24 Matthew 23:14

1 Samuel 15:21–24 · BSB

The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

Isaiah 1:11–13 · BSB

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Jeremiah 7:8–11 · BSB

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Amos 5:21–24 · BSB

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

“I will direct”

Psalm 25:8–12 Proverbs 8:20 Proverbs 3:6 Psalm 32:8 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Psalm 25:8–12 · BSB

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.

Proverbs 8:20 · BSB

I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,

Proverbs 3:6 · BSB

in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Psalm 32:8 · BSB

I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 · BSB

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.

“I will make”

Isaiah 55:3 Genesis 17:7 Jeremiah 32:40 2 Samuel 23:5 Psalm 50:5 Hebrews 13:20

Isaiah 55:3 · BSB

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

Genesis 17:7 · BSB

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Jeremiah 32:40 · BSB

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

2 Samuel 23:5 · BSB

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

Psalm 50:5 · BSB

“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Hebrews 13:20 · BSB

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

Also

Isaiah 5:16 Matthew 23:13

Isaiah 5:16 · BSB

But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

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

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