Isaiah 61:8

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

For I am YHWH, loving justice and hating robbery with injustice! And I will give their recompense in truth, and a covenant forever I will cut with them.

Latin

Quia ego Dominus diligens judicium, et odio habens rapinam in holocausto; et dabo opus eorum in veritate, et fœdus perpetuum feriam eis.

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Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Isaiah 61:8

Those who belong to the community of God’s people are to imitate the character of God. God loves justice (see Micah 6:8) and hates wrongdoing (Isaiah 33:15).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah God’s Covenants God’s Justice God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

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