Jesaja 61:8

8 Denn ich, Jehova, liebe das Recht, ich hasse den frevelhaften Raub; und ich werde ihnen ihre Belohnung getreulich geben und einen ewigen Bund mit ihnen schließen.

Jesaja 61:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 61:8

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" ^F3; 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 Isaiah 1:13 ) ( Hebrews 10:5-8 ) :

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 John 4:24 ) :

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 11:25-27 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (hlweb lzg) "rapinam conjunctam holocausto", Junius & Tremellius.

Jesaja 61:8 In-Context

6 Ihr aber, ihr werdet Priester Jehovas genannt werden; Diener unseres Gottes wird man euch heißen. Ihr werdet der Nationen Reichtümer genießen und in ihre Herrlichkeit eintreten.

7 Anstatt eurer Schmach werdet ihr das Doppelte haben, und anstatt der Schande werden sie jubeln über ihr Teil; darum werden sie in ihrem Lande das Doppelte besitzen, werden ewige Freude haben.

8 Denn ich, Jehova, liebe das Recht, ich hasse den frevelhaften Raub; und ich werde ihnen ihre Belohnung getreulich geben und einen ewigen Bund mit ihnen schließen.

9 Und ihr Same wird bekannt werden unter den Nationen, und ihre Sprößlinge inmitten der Völker: Alle, die sie sehen, werden sie erkennen, daß sie ein Same sind, den Jehova gesegnet hat.

10 Hoch erfreue ich mich in Jehova; meine Seele soll frohlocken in meinem Gott! Denn er hat mich bekleidet mit Kleidern des Heils, den Mantel der Gerechtigkeit mir umgetan, wie ein Bräutigam den Kopfschmuck nach Priesterart anlegt, und wie eine Braut sich schmückt mit ihrem Geschmeide.