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

Hebrews 13:20

Bible References

I the lord

For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

I hate

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

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I will direct

Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

I will make

Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,