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

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake - not His people's, but His own; shows that they had no righteousness (; ; .) God is well pleased with His Son ("in whom my soul delighteth," ) who "fulfills all righteousness" () for them, and is well pleased with them for His sake (cf. ; ; ; ; Romans 10:3; ). Perhaps in God's "righteousness" here is included His faithfulness to His promises, given to Israel's forefathers (Rosenmuller); because of this He is well pleased with Israel, even though displeased with their sin, which He here reproves; but that promise could only be based on the righteousness of Messiah, the promised seed, which is God's righteousness.

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