The wilderness — Those parts of the world which are now desolate and forsaken of God, and barren of all good fruits. Kedar — The Arabians: who were an Heathen and barbarous people, and are put for all nations. Mountains — Who are commonly more savage and ignorant than others.
Verse Isaiah 42:11. _LET THE WILDERNESS_] The most uncultivated countries, and the most rude and uncivilized people, shall confess and celebrate with thanksgiving the blessing of the knowledge of God...
LET THE WILDERNESS - (See the note at Isaiah 35:1). The word here denotes the most uncultivated countries, intimating that even the most rude and barbarous people would have occasion to rejoin, and wo...
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...
THE WHOLE EARTH IS SUMMONED TO PRAISE YAHWEH, FOR HE IS ABOUT TO TAKE THE FIELD AGAINST HIS FOES. Nations from one end of the earth to the other, the sea, the far lands, the deserts, and all dwellers...
The mention of "new things" in Isaiah 42:9 suggests this "new song," in which the creation is called to celebrate Jehovah's redemption of His people. The expression is common in the Psalms (Psalms 33:...
_the wilderness and the cities thereof_ The "cities," like the "villages" of the next line, are those in the oases, occupied by the settled Arabs; the former are probably the great centres of the cara...
SING UNTO THE LORD, &C.— The nations are here, in the most elegant manner, exhorted to praise and extol Jehovah, for the singular blessing conferred upon them, by calling them to his truth, and enligh...
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...
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. THE WILDERN...
42:11 rock (a-23) _ Sela_ , 'high rock.' see Psalms 18:2 ....
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...
KEDAR] the tribes of Arabia. THE ROCK] RV 'Sela,' the rock-city of Edom. 13-17. The vv. refer to the coming deliverance: in Isaiah 42:14. the speaker is Jehovah....
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...
Kedar and Sela were cities in the country called Edom. • Relations between the nations called Israel and Edom were never good (see my note on Isaiah 34:5). So it is wonderful that even these two nati...
יִשְׂא֤וּ מִדְבָּר֙ וְ עָרָ֔יו חֲצֵרִ֖ים תֵּשֵׁ֣ב...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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...
THE WORK OF THE LORD'S SERVANT Isaiah 42:1-13 We cannot doubt the application of this passage to our Lord, Matthew 12:18-20. The unobtrusiveness of His life and work was clearly demonstrated in every...
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...
Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages [that] (q) Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. (q) Meaning, t...
_Cedar, or the Jews in exile in the desert Arabia, Psalm cxix. 5. (Calmet) --- The people dwell in tents. (Roger. ii. 5.) --- Petra. A city that gives name to Arabia Petræa. (Challoner)_...
Here are the joyful consequences induced by the Redeemer's acts of grace and mercy, as before described. Surely all must sing the new song, which God puts into their mouths, when their souls are new-s...
11._Let the desert and it’s cities cry aloud. _While the Prophet includes all the parts of the world, he mentions particularly those which were better known to the Jews; for on the west Judea had the...
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...
LET THE WILDERNESS AND THE CITIES THEREOF LIFT UP THEIR VOICE,.... The eastern part of the world, Arabia Deserta, and the inhabitants of the cities which were in it: THE VILLAGES THAT KEDAR DOTH INHA...
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages [that] Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Ver. 11. _...
Isa. 42:10-12. The songs of the Lord of old were very much confined to the Temple at Jerusalem. When the Jews were in a "strange land" they hung their harps on the willows, and could not sing the Lord...
Isaiah 42:10 ; ISAIAH 42:12. _ Sing unto the Lord a new song_ Upon this new and great occasion, the salvation of the world by Christ. It is with peculiar propriety and elegance that the nations are he...
THE JOY OVER THE JUDGMENT OF CONDEMNATION UPON THE UNGODLY...
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof, the great Arabian Desert with its commercial centers, LIFT UP THEIR VOICE, THE VILLAGES, the fortified camps, THAT KEDAR DOTH INHABIT, the second son of Ishm...
5-12 The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by his grace he opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at...
THE WILDERNESS; those parts of the world which are now like a wilderness; not literally, for he speaks of their cities in the next clause, but spiritually, desolate and forsaken of God, dry and destit...
Isaiah 42:11 wilderness H4057 cities H5892 up H5375 (H8799) villages H2691 Kedar H6938 inhabits H3427 (H8799) inhab
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...
_Let the inhabitants of the Rock sing_ CHRIST THE CHRISTIAN’S ROCK I. SHOW IN WHAT RESPECT CHRIST MAY BE COMPARED TO A ROCK. 1. Christ is a Rock, in regard of His omnipotent power. 2. Christ is a...
_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. ⇐ ⇔
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 42:1. _Behold My servant, &c._ It is difficult for us who have history, with all its definiteness, to realise the inestimable value of prophecy, notwithstanding its vag...
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...
Genesis 25:23; Isaiah 32:16; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 35:6; Isaiah 40:3;...