They shall be turned back, reeling in a stupor of disappointment, they shall be greatly ashamed, heaped with disgrace, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. That is ever the lot of the idolaters, no matter whether their idolatry is openly practiced or held in secret only. The religion of Jesus Christ is the only true, the absolute religion.
THEY SHALL BE TURNED BACK - The phrases, to be turned back, and to be suffused with shame, are frequently used in the Scriptures to denote a state of disappointment in regard to an object of trust or...
CHAPTER 42 The True Servant of Jehovah 1. _The Servant of Jehovah and His mission (Isaiah 42:1)_ 2. _His future work among the nations (Isaiah 42:5)_ 3. The future song of redemption glory (Isaiah 42...
YAHWEH HAS LONG RESTRAINED HIMSELF: AT LAST HE WILL CRUSH HIS FOES AND HELP HIS SERVANTS. Long inactive, Yahweh is now filled with desire to intervene. He will ravage and lay waste the lands of His fo...
TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. THAT SAY, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:4). App-92....
Jehovah rouses Himself from His inactivity. The passage, which obviously continues the figure of Isaiah 42:13, is exceedingly bold in its anthropomorphism; it is Jehovah's battle-song....
The confusion of the idolaters, through the "revelation of the glory of God" (ch. Isaiah 40:5), the Babylonians being those specially referred to (cf. ch. Isaiah 46:1); _they shall be_ UTTERLY _ashame...
I HAVE LONG TIME HOLDEN MY PEACE— These words contain a declaration of the divine counsel; wherein God teacheth, that, by calling the Gentiles to his communion, he should effect a great change in the...
b. SING A SONG OF PRAISE TEXT: Isaiah 42:10-17 10 Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inh...
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. THEY SHALL BE TURNED BACK ... ASHAMED, THAT TRUST IN GRAVEN I...
THE IDEAL SERVANT 1-9. The characteristics and functions of Israel as the ideal Servant of Jehovah. 10-17 A song of praise to Jehovah. 18-25. The deficiencies of the actual Israel, considered as Je...
Some people cannot benefit from the promises in verse 16. They are the people that choose to trust home-made *idols. ISRAEL FAILS TO LEARN V18 The *Lord says: ‘Listen, you people of mine who have b...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 42 The *Old Testament calls several people ‘the *Lord’s servant’. Moses is...
THEY SHALL BE GREATLY ASHAMED... — Manifestly the winding up of a section. The foretold victories of Cyrus shall bring shame and confusion on the worshippers of the idols which he, the representative...
נָסֹ֤גוּ אָחֹור֙ יֵבֹ֣שׁוּ בֹ֔שֶׁת הַ בֹּטְחִ֖ים...
BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance of I...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
CHAPTER VIII THE PASSION OF GOD Isaiah 42:13 AT the beginning of chapter 42 we reach one of those distinct stages, the frequent appearance of which in our prophecy assures us, that, for all its ming...
A DEAF AND BLIND MESSENGER Isaiah 42:14-25 There are times in our lives when God seems to hold His peace. Evil is rife, bad men prosper, society lies under the spell of vice. It is only _temporary_,...
The manifesto now presents the great Servant of Jehovah. His person is first described. His manifestation is announced (verse Isaiah 42:1), His mission is declared (verse Isaiah 42:1), His method is d...
Here, as in the former Chapter s, the contrast is drawn between the Lord Jehovah, and the idols of the nations around; and the striking difference which marks the several worshippers is made between t...
17._They shall be driven back. _This enables us to see more clearly to whom the former doctrine relates, for it distinguishes between the worshippers of God and the worshippers of idols. The Lord will...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
THEY SHALL BE TURNED BACK,.... Either from their former course, from their idolatry and their idols, and be converted, and turn to the living God; or it may be understood of such Gentiles as were not...
_They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods._ Ver. 17. _They shall be greatly ashamed._] Heb., Be ashamed...
_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...
13-17 The Lord will appear in his power and glory. He shall cry, in the preaching of his word. He shall cry aloud in the gospel woes, which must be preached with gospel blessings, to awaken a sleepin...
This may be understood either, 1. Of the converted Gentiles; who shall be _turned back_ from their former sinful course, and shall sincerely grieve, and be ashamed that they did trust, &c., as the wo...
Isaiah 42:17 turned H5472 (H8738) back H268 greatly H1322 ashamed H954 (H8799) trust H982 (H8802) images...
A FURTHER SONG OF DELIVERANCE AND JUDGMENT (ISAIAH 42:10). Following on the revelation of the Servant comes the joy of the nations in seeing God at work though Him. In this brief section movement is r...
This book might well be called «the gospel according to Isaiah,» for it is full of evangelical truth. Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have pu...
CONTENTS: Christ, servant of Jehovah. Chastening of Israel and the final restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all who have contradicted and blasphemed the Gospel of...
Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant._ In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17. All other applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Christ took...
_Behold My Servant_ WHO IS THE “SERVANT OF JEHOVAH”? The following are, in brief, the leading opinions which have been held: (1) Hitzig’s, that the Jewish people in exile is referred to, as disting...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 42:10 God calls all the nations to rejoice in his triumphant self-vindication. ⇐ ⇔
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 42:1 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM. There are comparatively few
Now God speaks of another servant. This is His righteous servant, even Jesus Christ. And now Isaiah begins to prophesy concerning Christ, the servant of God. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine el...
Exodus 32:4; Exodus 32:8; Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 44:11;...