Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 61:8

8 For I the LORD love judgment , I hate robbery for burnt-offerings, and I will direct their work in truth , and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

q. d. They have suffered a great deal of hardship under their Enemies, and I will do them Right, for I love Justice in my self, and in them that practise it: Or, he gives a reason why he will recompense those Strangers that did▪ so freely minister to his People.

All things gotten by injustice, though it be for Sacrifice: As God will not accept of that which cost nothing; so much less of that which is the Effect of Rapin, and Oppression; a foundation, whereon most of our Abbies and Monasteries were built, viz. to expiate some great Crimes. And thus by making God a Receiver, they did interpretatively make him a Confederate.

Either I will lead, and guide them so, that they shall do all things in sincerity; they shall do good works, and to good Ends; they shall now love Truth, and walk in Truth, and serve him in Spirit and Truth: Or, I will reward them; or, I will make their work stable and firm. Truth notes stability; see the Notes on Chap. 16. 5. (work being here put metonymically for the reward of work) proportionably to their work.

q. d. Though you have broken Covenant with me, and I have seemed to forsake you in giving you up to Captivity, yet I will renew my ancient Covenant made with your Fathers, confirmed with the blood of Christ, and it shall be everlasting, never to be abrogated, viz. it shall be continued in the Gentiles that shall come in your rooms, that for breach of Covenant were broken off.

Marginal references: Chap. 1. 13.; Or, recompense. Heb. give, Ezek. 7. 3.