Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 61:8
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Isaiah61:8
8. judgment--justice, which requires that I should restore My people, and give them double in compensation for their sufferings.
robbery for burnt offering--rather, from a different Hebrew root, the spoil of iniquity [Horsley]. So in Job 5:6. Hating, as I do, the rapine, combined with iniquity, perpetrated on My people by their enemies, I will vindicate Israel.
direct ... work in truth--rather, "I will give them the reward of their work" (compare Is 40:10, Margin; Is 49:4, Margin; Is 62:11, Margin) in faithfulness.
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