Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Ver. 23. Who among you will give ear to this?] Magna nimirum haec sunt, sed paucis persuasa. We shall have much ado to make you believe these things, though your liberties, lives, and souls lie upon it.
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...
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...
ISRAEL'S PITEOUS PLIGHT, A PUNISHMENT FROM YAHWEH. The prophet bids the people, who have not recognised Yahweh's working in their distresses, look beneath the surface. To all appearance they are capti...
WHO... ? The other "call to hear" emphasized by the Figure of speech _Erotesis_....
An expostulation with Israel for its insensibility to the privileges it has enjoyed. The passage is of considerable interest for the light which it throws on the sense in which the title "Servant of t...
The question expresses the prophet's wish that now at last some of the people should begin to realise the significance of their relation to Jehovah, and prepare themselves for the great deliverance. _...
BUT THIS IS A PEOPLE ROBBED, &C.— It was reasonably to be expected, that the Jews, blessed with so great privileges, would have been greatly honoured and respected: but, abusing those privileges, thei...
c. SIGHTLESS SERVANTS TEXT: Isaiah 42:18-25 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that i...
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? (WHO) WILL HEARKEN, AND HEAR FOR THE TIME TO COME? - a call that they should be warned by the past judgments of...
WHO AMONG YOU, etc.] i.e. who will learn the lesson of the past?...
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...
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...
But the people in Israel refused to obey the *Lord. So he punished them severely. The *Lord allowed a powerful enemy to take them to Babylon as prisoners. OLD TESTAMENT ~ the first part of the Bible....
מִ֥י בָכֶ֖ם יַאֲזִ֣ין זֹ֑את יַקְשִׁ֥ב וְ יִשׁ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken and hear for (b) the time to come? (b) Meaning, God's wrath....
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...
23._Who is there among you? _Isaiah continues the same subject; for he means that the Jews are and will be so stupid, that they will not see, even when they are warned; and he expressly addresses them...
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...
WHO AMONG YOU WILL GIVE EAR TO THIS?.... To this prophecy of your destruction, and to what follows concerning it: WHO WILL HEARKEN AND HEAR FOR THE TIME TO COME? and receive instruction from hence, a...
_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 a...
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? realizing the gravity of the situation properly and being guided by it....
THE WRATH OF GOD UPON ISRAEL...
FOR THE TIME TO COME? _HEB._FOR THE AFTER TIME...
18-25 Observe the call given to this people, and the character given of them. Multitudes are ruined for want of observing that which they cannot but see; they perish, not through ignorance, but carel...
Oh that you would learn from your former and dear bought experiences to be wiser for the future, and not to provoke God to your own total and final ruin!...
Isaiah 42:23 ear H238 (H8686) listen H7181 (H8686) hear H8085 (H8799) come H268 will give -...
THE SAD PRESENT STATE OF GOD'S SERVANT, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM (ISAIAH 42:18). The glory of the future is now brought down to earth by a recognition of the present condition of God's servant. In contrast...
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...
_Who among you will give ear to this?_ NATIONAL CALAMITIES I. THE TRUE CAUSE OF NATIONAL CALAMITIES IS HERE POINTED OUT--SIN. The public distresses of the men of Judah and Israel did not proceed from...
THE SUBJECTION OF THE JEWS AN ADMONITION TO THE WORLD Isaiah 42:23. _Who among you will give ear to this? &c._ I. _The desolation brought upon the Jews_. Terrible. Sent upon them by God. Defeated af...
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...
1 Peter 4:2; 1 Peter 4:3; Acts 3:19; Acts 3:22; Acts 3:23;...