Isaiah 16:5
in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
Note Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Note established: or, prepared
A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- in mercy
- Psalm 61:6, 7; Psalm 85:10; Psalm 89:1, 2, 14; Proverbs 20:28; Proverbs 29:14; Luke 1:69–75
- established
- or, prepared. in the.
- Isaiah 9:6, 7; 2 Samuel 5:9; 2 Samuel 7:16; Jeremiah 23:5, 6; Daniel 7:14, 27; Amos 9:11; Micah 4:7; Luke 1:31–33; Acts 15:16, 17
- judging
- Isaiah 11:1–5; Isaiah 32:1, 2; 2 Samuel 23:3; 1 Kings 10:9; 2 Chronicles 31:20; Psalm 72:2–4; Psalm 96:13; Psalm 98:9; Psalm 99:4; Zechariah 9:9; Hebrews 1:8, 9
- hasting
- 2 Peter 3:11, 12