Isaiah 61:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I the lord

Zechariah 8:16

I hate

Matthew 23:14

I will direct

2 Thessalonians 3:5

I will make

Bible References

I the lord

For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteous deeds.
The upright will see His face.

He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.

For the Lord loves justice
and will not abandon His faithful ones.
They are kept safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy
more than your companions.

The mighty King loves justice.
You have established fairness;
You have administered justice
and righteousness in Jacob.

But the one who boasts should boast in this,
that he understands and knows Me—
that I am Yahweh, showing faithful love,
justice, and righteousness on the earth,
for I delight in these things.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your gates.

I hate

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.

The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the best of what was set apart for destruction—to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.

I hate, I despise your feasts!
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

I will direct

The Lord is good and upright;
therefore He shows sinners the way.

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.

think about Him in all your ways,
and He will guide you on the right paths.

I walk in the way of righteousness,
along the paths of justice,

May the Lord direct your hearts to God’s love and Christ’s endurance.

I will make

Pay attention and come to Me;
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the promises assured to David.

I will keep My covenant between Me and you, and your future offspring throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.

Is it not true my house is with God?
For He has established an everlasting covenant with me,
ordered and secured in every detail.
Will He not bring about
my whole salvation and my every desire?

“Gather My faithful ones to Me,
those who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

“I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of Me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from Me.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,