Isaiah 42:12 - Exposition

Let them give glory unto the Lord … in the islands ; i.e. "let those who are in the islands," or the maritime tracts, "give glory to God"—a repetition of the last clause of Isaiah 42:10 . The persistency with which the islands, or the maritime tracts of the west, are mentioned ( Isaiah 41:1 , Isaiah 41:5 ; Isaiah 42:10 , Isaiah 42:12 ; Isaiah 49:1 , etc.) may perhaps be accounted for by the fact that Christianity was to obtain its earliest and its most enduring triumphs in these regions.