Isaiah 42:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

📖 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 your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
• Ps 71:16 : 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
• Ps 71:19 : 19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You have done great things. God, who is like you?
• Ps 85:9-9 : 9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, That glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. 12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
• Isa 1:24-27 : 24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, And avenge myself of my enemies; 25 And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin. 26 I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.' 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her converts with righteousness.
• Isa 42:4 : 4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
• Isa 46:12-13 : 12 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness: 13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
• Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. 25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,{"Anointed One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").} the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. 26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One{"Anointed One" can also be translated "Messiah" (same as "Christ").} shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.
• Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.
• Matt 3:17 : 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
• Matt 5:17-20 : 17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
• John 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
• John 13:31-32 : 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
• John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
• John 17:4-5 : 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice{or, a propitiation}, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
• Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4 that the ordinance 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 fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
• Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
• Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Heb 8:10 : 10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.
• 1 John 3:4-5 : 4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.