Isaiah 42:14-24 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:21

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake - There is great variety in the translation and interpretation of this verse. Lowth renders it:Yet Yahweh was gracious unto him for his truth’s sake;He hath exalted his own praise, and made it glorious.Noyes renders it:It pleased Yahweh for his goodness’ sakeTo give him a law great and glorious;And yet it is a robbed and plundered people.The Septuagint renders it, ‘The Lord God determined that he should be justified, and magnify his praise.’... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and spoiled - The Jewish people, though highly favored, have been so unmindful of the goodness of God to them, that he has given them into the hand of their enemies to plunder them. This is to be conceived as spoken after the captivity, and while the Jews were in exile. Their being robbed and spoiled, therefore, refers to the invasion of the Chaldeans, and is to be regarded as spoken propheticly of the exiled and oppressed Jews while in Babylon.They are all of them... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give ear to this? - Who is there in the nation that will be so warned by the judgments of God, that he will attend to the lessons which he designs to teach, and reform his life, and return to him? It is implied by these questions that such ought to be the effect; it is implied also that they were so sunken and abandoned that they would not do it. These judgments were a loud call on the nation to turn to God, and, in time to come, to avoid the sins which had made it necessary... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Jacob for a spoil? - Who gave up the Jewish people to be plundered? The object of this verse is, to bring distinctly before them the fact that it was Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and of their nation, who had brought this calamity upon them. It was not the work of chance, but it was the immediate and direct act of God on account of their sins. Probably, as a people, they were not disposed to believe this; and the prophet, therefore, takes occasion to calf their attention... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:13-15

Isaiah 42:13-15. The Lord shall go forth Namely, to battle against his enemies. He shall stir up jealousy His fierce indignation against the obstinate enemies of his Son and gospel. He shall cry, yea, roar As a lion doth upon his prey, and as soldiers do when they begin the battle. I have long time held my peace I have been long silent, and not interposed in behalf of my cause, but have suffered Satan and his servants to prevail in the world, to afflict my people, and hinder the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:16-17

Isaiah 42:16-17. And I will bring the blind The ignorant Gentiles, represented as blind, Isaiah 42:7, and in many other parts of Scripture, and accounted blind by the Jews; by a way that they knew not By the way of truth, which hitherto hath been hidden from them. I will make darkness light before them, &c. I will enlighten their dark minds, rectify their perverse wills and affections, and direct them in the right way, until I have brought them, with safety and comfort, to the end... 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:21

Isaiah 42:21. The Lord is well pleased, &c. Although thou art a wicked people, that rebellest against the clearest light, and therefore God might justly destroy thee suddenly, yet he will patiently wait for thy repentance, that he may be gracious; and that not for thy sake, but for the glory of his own faithfulness, in fulfilling that covenant which he made with thy pious progenitors. He will magnify the law He will maintain the honour of his law, and therefore is not forward to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:22-24

Isaiah 42:22-24. But this is a people robbed and spoiled Notwithstanding the great respect which God hath had, and still hath, for his people, it is evident he hath severely scourged them for their sins. They are all of them snared in holes, &c. They have been taken in snares made by their own hands, and, by God’s just judgment, delivered into the hands of their enemies, and by them cast into pits, or dungeons, and prisons. And none saith, Restore None afforded them either pity or... 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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 42:24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:13-15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:16-17

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 42:22-24

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 42:1-25

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