Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 42:15
Hills — My most lofty and flourishing enemies. Dry up — I will remove all impediments out of the way.
Hills — My most lofty and flourishing enemies. Dry up — I will remove all impediments out of the way.
Verse Isaiah 42:15. _I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS ISLANDS _- "I will make the rivers dry deserts"] Instead of איים _iyim, islands_, read ציים _tsiim;_ a very probable conjecture of _Houbigant_....
I WILL MAKE WASTE MOUNTAINS - This verse denotes the utter desolation which God would bring upon his foes in his anger. The meaning of this part of the verse is, that he would spread desolation over t...
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...
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....
Jehovah's breath of anger will make the fairest and best watered regions an arid waste. Cf. ch. Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 40:24, and note the contrasted image in Isaiah 41:18 f. For _herbs_, read HERBAGE. T...
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...
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. I WILL MAKE WASTE MOUNTAINS - I will destroy all my proud and el...
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...
When God does act, it will be plainly his work. Nothing will be able to stand in his way. The bushes and trees in the forest will not delay his arrival. Even the broadest river could not delay his pro...
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...
I WILL MAKE WASTE MOUNTAINS... — The whole description is symbolic, and points to the subjugation of the heathen nations, the “rivers” and “pools” probably representing the kingdoms of the Tigris and...
אַחֲרִ֤יב הָרִים֙ וּ גְבָעֹ֔ות וְ כָל ־עֶשְׂב
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...
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...
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...
_Pools. Cyrus deluged the country about Babylon, chap. xiii., and xxi. 1. (Haydock) --- The proud and covetous, who expected Christ to give them kingdoms, were deceived. He came to teach humility, and...
Nothing can be more blessed than these promises, when we behold them as our own, from a conscious oneness with Christ, and when we live upon them, from living upon him. Then we see that he who thus un...
15._I will reduce mountains and hills to a wilderness. _The Prophet means that all the defences and military forces on which the wicked plume themselves shall not prevent God from setting his people a...
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...
I WILL MAKE WASTE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS,.... Kingdoms, greater and lesser; kings and governors, as Jarchi interprets it; and so Kimchi understands it of the kings of the nations; by them are meant the e...
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. Ver. 15. _I will make waste mountains and hills._] I will rather in...
_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...
THE JOY OVER THE JUDGMENT OF CONDEMNATION UPON THE UNGODLY...
I will make waste mountains and hills, thereby destroying the enemies, AND DRY UP ALL THEIR HERBS, as a preliminary act of the final annihilation; AND I WILL MAKE THE RIVERS ISLANDS, AND I WILL DRY UP...
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...
I WILL MAKE WASTE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS; not dry and barren ones, for these were waste already, but such as are clothed with grass and herbs, as the following words imply; which is to be understood meta...
Isaiah 42:15 waste H2717 (H8686) mountains H2022 hills H1389 up H3001 (H8686) vegetation H6212 make H7760 ...
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...
Isaiah 42:14 The solemn practical truth of the text is that God can do the most terrible things and the most gentle; that power belongeth unto God and also mercy; that He is either glorious as heaven...
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. ⇐ ⇔
GOD’S TERRIBLENESS AND GENTLENESS Isaiah 42:14. _I will destroy and devour at once, &c._ The measure of greatness is the measure of terribleness; constructiveness is the beneficent side of destructiv...
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...
Habakkuk 3:6; Haggai 2:6; Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 11:16; Isaiah 2:12;...