The blind — The Gentiles. By a way — By the way of truth, which hitherto has been hidden from them, yea, I will take away all hindrances; I will direct then in the right way; I will enlighten their dark minds, and rectify their perverse wills and affections, until I have brought theirs to the end of their journey.
Verse Isaiah 42:16. _IN PATHS_] The _Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate_, and nine MSS., (two ancient,) read ובנתיבות _ubenotiboth_. _WILL I DO UNTO THEM_] עשיתם _asitem_. This word, so written as it is in...
AND I WILL LEAD THE BLIND - Having said in the previous verses what he would do to his enemies, God now speaks of his people. He would conduct them to their own land, as a blind people that needed a g...
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...
I WILL LEAD. I have led. I WILL LEAD THEM, &C. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, commence this sentence with "And". THESE THINGS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:6). W...
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 prophet hastens on to the gracious issue of God's interposition, the homebringing of the captives through the trackless desert. _the blind_here are hardly the spiritually blind, those who cannot d...
DISCOURSE: 929 GOD’S DEALINGS WITH HIS PEOPLE OPENED Isaiah 42:16. _I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light...
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...
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do...
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...
וְ הֹולַכְתִּ֣י עִוְרִ֗ים בְּ דֶ֨רֶךְ֙ לֹ֣א י
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...
And I will bring the (t) blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things wi...
_Blind captives, or converts to Christianity._...
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...
_THE SPIRITUALLY BLESSED_ ‘And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things strai...
16._And I will lead the blind. _After having shewn that the strength of the enemies cannot prevent God from delivering his people, he proceeds with that consolation to which he had formerly adverted....
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...
AND I WILL BRING THE BLIND BY A WAY THAT THEY KNEW NOT,.... The Targum interprets this of the people of Israel, thus, "I will lead the house of Israel, which are like to the blind, in a way which the...
And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I...
_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...
And I will bring the blind, those who realize the condition of blindness with which they are suffering, BY A WAY THAT THEY KNEW NOT, which they never would and could find on account of the natural per...
THE JOY OVER THE JUDGMENT OF CONDEMNATION UPON THE UNGODLY...
STRAIGHT: _ Heb._ into straightness...
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...
THE BLIND; the Gentiles, who were blind, and were called so, above, ISAIAH 42:7, and in many other places of Scripture, and were so accounted by the Jews. BY A WAY THAT THEY KNOW NOT; by the way of tr...
Isaiah 42:16 bring H3212 (H8689) blind H5787 way H1870 know H3045 (H8804) lead H1869 (H8686) paths...
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...
_And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not_ GOD LEADING THE BLIND The blind are they whom transgression and wickedness have robbed of power of spiritual insight. The unknown ways in wh...
_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. ⇐ ⇔
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 42:16 God’s ways are so far beyond human understanding that those he delivers might as well be BLIND, in DARKNESS and on ROUGH terrain, but God leads them through (se
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...
1 Peter 1:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; Ecclesiastes 1:15;...