Isaiah 59:17

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Summary

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

He put on righteousness

The garments

With zeal

John 2:17

General references

Exodus 39:8

Isaiah 34:8

Ezekiel 39:24

Bible References

He put on righteousness

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, as in the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, and pierced the monster?

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

And I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and one sitting on it, called Faithful and True, and he judges and makes war in righteousness.

The garments

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.

O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;

For we know him that said, To me belongs vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

With zeal

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?

For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

And the angel that talked with me said unto me, Cry, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy,

And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.

General references

And he made the breastplate of artistic work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus.

For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I did unto them, and I hid my face from them.