Isaiah 61:8

8. This verse connects with Isaiah 61:1-7 by the word for, to show the attitude of Jehovah who, as God over all, now speaks toward Israel and his former oppressors.

I the Lord love judgment That which is right and just in the experience of my people, who have heretofore done evil, and have suffered by the hand of the oppressor. This, on God’s part, was right and just, but no thanks to the oppressor.

I hate robbery The oppressor has punished with gross injustice, and in sheer selfishness. Burnt offering is, with good critics, now accounted as meaning injustice, (not from the Hebrew root once supposed.) Jehovah avers his hatred of injustice toward his people, whom, and for which injustice, he now compensates with another and glorious estate, as given in Isaiah 61:1-7.

Hereafter Jehovah will direct their work their proper estate under Messiah in truth. Reward shall be the order henceforth.