Isaiah 61:8
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אָהַב
ʼâhab
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
מִנְחָה
minchâh
a donation; euphemistically, tribute; specifically a sacrificial offering (usually bloodless and voluntary)
יָשַׁר
yâshar
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
אֶמֶת
ʼemeth
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...
בְּרִית
bᵉrîyth
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָשַׁר yâshar
to be straight or even; figuratively, to be (causatively, to make) right, pleasant, prosperous
Study H3474 →עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm
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
Study H5769 →בְּרִית bᵉrîyth
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
Study H1285 →מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
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 pla...
Study H4941 →מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →Cross References
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I deligh...
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
And 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 unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro...
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
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