Isaiah 42:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֥ה חָפֵ֖ץ לְמַ֣עַן צִדְק֑וֹ יַגְדִּ֥יל תּוֹרָ֖ה וְיַאְדִּֽיר׃

Transliteration

YHWH ḥāpēṣ for the sake of ṣidqô; yagdîl tôrâ and yeʾaddîr.

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun - covenant name of God
• *ḥāpēṣ*: verb qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he desired/pleased/delighted
• *ṣidqô*: masculine noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his righteousness
• *yagdîl*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he magnifies/makes great
• *tôrâ*: feminine singular noun - instruction/law/teaching
• *yeʾaddîr*: hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he makes glorious/makes majestic

Word Meanings

• *ḥāpēṣ*: desired/pleased/delighted in
• *ṣidqô*: his righteousness/justice/vindication
• *tôrâ*: instruction/law/teaching/direction
• *yeʾaddîr*: makes glorious/makes majestic/honors

Referenced Verses

• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
• Ps 71:16 : 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
• Ps 71:19 : 19 Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
• Ps 85:9-9 : 9 Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other]. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land shall yield her increase.
• Isa 1:24-27 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: 26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
• Isa 42:4 : 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
• Isa 46:12-13 : 12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness: 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
• Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, [that] from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince [shall be] seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
• Matt 3:15 : 15 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.
• Matt 3:17 : 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• Matt 5:17-20 : 17 ¶ ‹Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.› 18 ‹For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.› 19 ‹Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach› [them], ‹the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.› 20 ‹For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed› [the righteousness] ‹of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.›
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• John 8:29 : 29 ‹And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.›
• John 13:31-32 : 31 ¶ Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, ‹Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.› 32 ‹If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.›
• John 15:10 : 10 ‹If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.›
• John 17:4-5 : 4 ‹I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.› 5 ‹And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.›
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
• Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Rom 7:12 : 12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
• 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Gal 3:21 : 21 [Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
• Phil 3:9 : 9 ¶ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Heb 8:10 : 10 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:
• 1 John 3:4-5 : 4 ¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.