Isaiah 42:21

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable.

The LORD {H3068} is well pleased {H2654} for his righteousness {H6664}' sake; he will magnify {H1431} the law {H8451}, and make it honourable {H142}.

ADONAI was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to make the Torah great and glorious.

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Romans 3:31 (5 votes)

    Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

  • Psalms 71:19 (4 votes)

    Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!

  • Romans 7:12 (4 votes)

    Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

  • Matthew 3:15 (4 votes)

    And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

  • Psalms 40:8 (4 votes)

    I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

  • Hebrews 8:10 (4 votes)

    For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  • Matthew 5:17 (4 votes)

    Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.