Isaiah 42:2

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

He shall not cry, nor lift up. Matthew marks the kind of "cry" as that of altercation, by quoting it, "He shall not strive" ().

In the street - the Septuagint translate 'outside.' An image from an altercation in a house, loud enough to be heard in the street outside: appropriate of Him who "withdrew Himself" from the public fame created by His miracles, to privacy (; , there, shows another and sterner aspect of His character toward the Satanic "generation of vipers" which is also implied in the term "judgment").