Isaías 61:8

8 Porque yo, el SEÑOR, amo el derecho, odio el latrocinio en el holocausto. Fielmente les daré su recompensa, y haré con ellos un pacto eterno.

Isaías 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 ) .

---

FOOTNOTES:

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

Isaías 61:8 In-Context

6 Y vosotros seréis llamados sacerdotes del SEÑOR; ministros de nuestro Dios se os llamará. Comeréis las riquezas de las naciones, y en su gloria os jactaréis.

7 En vez de vuestra verguenza tendréis doble porción, y en vez de humillación ellos gritarán de júbilo por su herencia. Por tanto poseerán el doble en su tierra, y tendrán alegría eterna.

8 Porque yo, el SEÑOR, amo el derecho, odio el latrocinio en el holocausto. Fielmente les daré su recompensa, y haré con ellos un pacto eterno.

9 Entonces su descendencia será conocida entre las naciones, y sus vástagos en medio de los pueblos; todos los que los vean los reconocerán, porque son la simiente que el SEÑOR ha bendecido.

10 En gran manera me gozaré en el SEÑOR, mi alma se regocijará en mi Dios; porque El me ha vestido de ropas de salvación, me ha envuelto en manto de justicia como el novio se engalana con una corona, como la novia se adorna con sus joyas.