Isaiah 61:8

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6 ^aBut you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
^bYou shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.

7 ^aInstead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

8 “For ^aI, the Lord, love justice;
^bI hate robbery¹ for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
^cAnd will make with them an everlasting covenant.

9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
^aThat they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

10 ^aI will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For ^bHe has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
^cAs a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause ^arighteousness and ^bpraise to spring forth before all the nations.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 61:8

I hate robbery for burnt-offering "Who hate rapine and iniquity" - The Syriac, and Chaldee prefix the conjunction vau , instead of the preposition beth , to olah , which they render iniquity or oppression; and so the Septuagint, . The difference lies in the punctuation; beolah , in a burnt-offering beavelah , in iniquity. The letters are the same in both words. Five of De Rossi' s MSS. confirm this reading.

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