Isaiah 59:17

The idea of Jehovah as a warrior occurs several times in this book (ch. Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 49:24 f., Isaiah 52:10); but the fully developed image of His arming Himself with His own attributes has no exact parallel in the O.T. (cf. however, ch. Isaiah 11:5). It is reproduced and further elaborated in Wis 5:17 ff.; and in the N. T. it suggests the figure of the Christian armour (Ephesians 6:14 ff.; 1 Thessalonians 5:8).

And he put on righteousness as a coat of mail (R.V. marg.). "Righteousness," as in Isaiah 59:16, is a divine attribute, zeal for the right, the stedfast purpose to establish righteousness (and its correlate, salvation) on the earth.

zeal Cf. ch. Isaiah 42:13; Isaiah 9:7.