イザヤ書 42:18-19 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:19-25

(latter part) The hidden hurt. I. THERE ARE PENALTIES WHICH ARE PALPABLE TO EVERY EYE . When vice or crime leads down to poverty, or to serious sickness, or to desertion and consequent loneliness, or to confinement in prison, there is no possibility of mistake. God is "pouring out his anger" against the transgressors of his Law; he is "magnifying his Law, and making it honourable" ( Isaiah 42:21 ). But— II. THERE ARE PENALTIES WHICH ARE UNDETECTED EVEN ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:18

Hear, ye deaf - This is evidently an address to the Jews, and probably to the Jews of the time of the prophet. He had been predicting the coming of the Messiah, and the influence of his religion on the Gentile world. He had said that God would go forth to destroy the idolatry of the pagan nations, and to convince them of the folly of the worship of images, and to confound them for putting their trust in them. He seems here to have recollected that this was the easily-besetting sin of his own... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:19

Who is blind, but my servant? - Some of the Jewish expositors suppose that by ‘servant’ here, the prophet himself is intended, who, they suppose is here called blind and deaf by the impious Jews who rejected his message. But it is evident, that by ‘servant’ here, the Jewish people themselves are intended, the singular being used for the plural, in a sense similar to that where they are so often called ‘Jacob’ and ‘Israel.’ The phrase ‘servants of God’ is often given to his people, and is used... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:18-20

Isaiah 42:18-20. Hear, ye deaf, &c. O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or Gentiles, who shall resist this clear light, and obstinately continue in your former errors, attend diligently to my words, and consider these mighty works of God. Who is blind but my servant? But no people under heaven are so blind as the Jews, who call themselves my servants and people, who will not receive their Messiah, though he be recommended to them with such evident and illustrious signs and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 42:1-25

Success and failure of God’s servant (42:1-25)In the previous chapter the servant of Yahweh was identified with Israel (see 41:8). Israel is probably again the servant who is identified here, but the ideals outlined in this song never became a reality in the nation. They did, to some extent, characterize the faithful remnant, but they found their perfect expression only in the one who embodied the ideals God desired, Jesus Christ. The prophet foresees that this servant of Yahweh, though... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 42:18

Hear. Note the call to hear in the Structure, corresponding with the call in Isaiah 42:23 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 42:19

My servant. This is Israel. See the Structures above; and see note on Isaiah 37:35 . Not the same "servant" as in Isaiah 42:1 . perfect = an intimate friend or trusted one. Hebrew. me'shullam (plural of shalam), to be at peace with. Compare 2 Samuel 20:19 . Job 22:21 .Psalms 7:4 . It is from this word we have Mussulman and Moslem. Israel, in the presence of the foe, was, in Jehovah's sight, thus perfect. See Numbers 23:21 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 42:18

THE BLIND AND DEAF SERVANT"Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Who is blind but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace with me, and blind as Jehovah's servant? Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not. It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and hid in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 42:18

Isaiah 42:18. Hear, ye deaf, &c.— The prophet, having foretold the future illumination and conversion of the Gentiles, and the abolition of idolatry, takes an occasion thence to reprove the Jews for their blindness and stupidity in the great concerns of religion. See ch. Isaiah 2:5. &c. The meaning of the apostrophe is this: "Since matters are thus, and the Gentiles are to be illuminated by that Messiah who is to arise from amongst you, and who is to destroy all idolatry, and as these... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 42:19-20

Isaiah 42:19-20. Who is blind, but my servant; &c.— As it might be doubted who were the blind and deaf mentioned in the preceding verse, the prophet here points them out. "I have exhibited (says God) the Gentiles in the foregoing discourse as blind and deaf, to be enlightened by the doctrine of the Messiah, and brought to the obedience of his laws. But how much more blind are you, how much more deaf, ye degenerate sons of Jacob! who, though the only people favoured with my word, the only... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 42:19-25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:18-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 42:1-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 42:18

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 42:19

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 42:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 42:18

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 42:19-20

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