John Trapp on Isaiah 61:8

Ver. 8. For I the Lord love Judgement, &c.] One rendreth it roundly thus, For I the Lord love right; I hate rapine by iniquity: q. d. Therefore I will right and repay the wrongs and dammages done to my people. Neither is it for any one to think to expiate his bad deeds by his good, to ſet off with God, and to make him amends. In the times of Popery indeed men were taught ſo to do; they were perſwaded that God would accept rapinam in holocauſtum, and they practiſed accordingly: as did the French Fury Brunhildis, who founded many Colledges: and our King Stephen who built many Monaſteries: eo ſcilicet beneficio maleficia ſua expiaverunt, ſaith mine Author. How much better Selymus the great Turk,Turk. hiſt. fol. 567. who being on his death-bed moved by Pyrrhus his favourite, to beſtow the great wealth taken from the Perſian Merchants in divers places of his Empire, upon ſome notable Hoſpital for relief of the poor, refuſed ſo to do, and forthwith commanded reſtitution thereof to be made to the right owners.

And I will direct their work in truth] i. e. In ſincerity: there ſhall be good actions and good aimes; which two make a good Chriſtian. Some render the words thus, And I will give them according to their work in truth; making in truth to be Gods oath: q. d. Truly and without all doubt, I will perform my promiſes: you have mine Oath and my Covenant both, for your better aſſurance.