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Isaiah 61

Isa. 61:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
love
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, I hate
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
robbery
gazel (Hebrew #1498)
robbery, or (concretely) plunder
KJV usage: robbery, thing taken away by violence.
Pronounce: gaw-zale'
Origin: from 1497
for burnt offering
`olah (Hebrew #5930)
feminine active participle of 5927; a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
KJV usage: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also 5766.
Pronounce: o-law'
Origin: or mowlah {o-law'}
; and I will direct
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
their work
p`ullah (Hebrew #6468)
(abstractly) work
KJV usage: labour, reward, wages, work.
Pronounce: peh-ool-law'
Origin: feminine passive participle of 6466
in truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
, and I will make
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
an everlasting
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
e with them.
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Isa. 55:3• 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)
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Psa. 50:5• 5Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! (Psa. 50:5)

More on:

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Burnt Offering or Sacrifice,
Covenant,
Everlasting,
Offering; Offering Up,
Robbery,
Truth

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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I the Lord.
Psa. 11:7• 7For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright. (Psa. 11:7)
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Psa. 33:5• 5He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah. (Psa. 33:5)
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Psa. 37:28• 28for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. (Psa. 37:28)
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Psa. 45:7• 7Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions. (Psa. 45:7)
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Psa. 99:4• 4And the strength of the king that loveth justice. *Thou* hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. (Psa. 99:4)
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Jer. 9:24• 24but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 9:24)
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Zech. 8:16‑17• 16These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;
 17and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah. (Zech. 8:16‑17)
I hate.
Isa. 1:11‑13• 11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.
 12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand--to tread my courts?
 13Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me,--new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations--wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear. (Isa. 1:11‑13)
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1 Sam. 15:21‑24• 21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.
 22And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.
 23For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And selfwill is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
 24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words; for I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice. (1 Sam. 15:21‑24)
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Jer. 7:8‑11• 8Behold, ye confide in words of falsehood that cannot profit.
 9What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not …
 10then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered,--in order to do all these abominations!
 11Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 7:8‑11)
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Amos 5:21‑24• 21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.
 22For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.
 23Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;
 24but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5:21‑24)
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Matt. 23:14• 14(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.) (Matt. 23:14)
I will direct.
Psa. 25:8‑12• 8Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way:
 9The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.
 10All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
 11For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
 12What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. (Psa. 25:8‑12)
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Psa. 32:8• 8I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. (Psa. 32:8)
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Prov. 3:6• 6in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths. (Prov. 3:6)
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Prov. 8:20• 20I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: (Prov. 8:20)
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2 Thess. 3:5• 5But the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of the Christ. (2 Thess. 3:5)
I will make.
Isa. 55:3• 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)
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Gen. 17:7• 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. (Gen. 17:7)
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2 Sam. 23:5• 5Although my house be not so before *God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For this is all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make it not to grow. (2 Sam. 23:5)
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Psa. 50:5• 5Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice! (Psa. 50:5)
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Jer. 32:40• 40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not draw back from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not turn aside from me. (Jer. 32:40)
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Heb. 13:20‑21• 20But the God of peace, who brought again from among the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in the power of the blood of the eternal covenant,
 21perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen. (Heb. 13:20‑21)
• Other passages have shown us how their whole condition spiritually will have been reversed under “the everlasting covenant”, of which verse 8 speaks. (“Isaiah 61” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "justice."