Isaiah 61:10

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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.

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Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord - These may be the words of the Jews now converted, and brought into the Church of Christ, and with the Gentiles made fellow heirs of the blessings of the new covenant.

As a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments "As the bridegroom decketh himself with a priestly crown" - An allusion to the magnificent dress of the high priest, when performing his functions; and particularly to the mitre, and crown or plate of gold on the front of it, Exodus 29:6. The bonnet or mitre of the priests also was made, as Moses expresses it, "for glory and for beauty, "Exodus 28:40. It is difficult to give its full force to the prophet' s metaphor in another language. The version of Aquila and Symmachus comes nearest to it: ̔ ̔ ͅ· "as a bridegroom decked with a priestly crown." - L.

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