Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake
To make the law great and glorious.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.

International Standard Version

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of his vindication, that he should magnify his Law and make it glorious.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake
To make the law great and prove to be glorious.

Bible in Basic English

It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.

Darby Translation

Jehovah had delight in him for his righteousness' sake: he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed [his] teaching to be great and proved [it] to be glorious.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD be merciful unto them for his righteousness' sake, that his word might be magnified and praised.

NET Bible

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, is well-pleased for his own righteousness sake, He magnifieth instruction and maketh it majestic.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The Lord

Usage: 0

חפץ 
Chaphets 
Usage: 76

sake he will magnify
גּדל 
Gadal 
Usage: 115

the law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Isaiah 42:21

References

Hastings

Watsons

Law

Context Readings

Blind And Deaf Israel

20 Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear. 21 Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious. 22 And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back


Cross References

Psalm 40:8

To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 71:16

I will go in the strength of the Lord Jehovah: I will keep in remembrance thy justice, thine alone.

Psalm 71:19

And thy justice, O God, even to height, who didst great things: O God, who like thee?

Psalm 85:9-12

Surely his salvation is near to those fearing him, for glory to dwell in his land.

Isaiah 1:24-27

For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies:

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:

Isaiah 46:12-13

Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.

Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.

Matthew 3:15

And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him.

Matthew 3:17

And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.

Matthew 5:17-20

Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete.

Matthew 17:5

He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.

John 8:29

And he having sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always things pleasing to him.

John 13:31-32

Jesus says, Now was the Son of man honoured, and God was honoured in him.

John 15:10

If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love.

John 17:4-5

I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.

Romans 3:25-26

Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God;

Romans 3:31

Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law.

Romans 7:12

Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.

Romans 8:3-4

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Romans 10:4

For Christ the end of the law for justice to every one believing.

2 Corinthians 5:19-21

For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been a curse for us: for it has been written, Cursed every one hanging upon a tree:

Galatians 3:21

The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law.

Galatians 5:22-23

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Philippians 3:9

And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Hebrews 8:10

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

1 John 3:4-5

Every one doing sin also does lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness.

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