Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 42:25
Fury — Most grievous judgments. Yet — They were secure and stupid under God's judgments.
Fury — Most grievous judgments. Yet — They were secure and stupid under God's judgments.
Verse Isaiah 42:25. _THE FURY OF HIS ANGER _- "The heat of his wrath"] For חמה _chammah_, the Bodl. MS. has חמת _chammath_, in _regimine_, more regularly. _IT HATH SET HIM ON FIRE ROUND ABOUT_] So t...
THEREFORE HE HATH POURED UPON HIM THE FURY OF HIS ANGER - His righteous indignation in the overturning of their nation, the destruction of their temple and city, and in carrying them captive into a di...
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...
STRENGTH. strength (for prevailing). Not the same word as in Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 41:10. Hebrew. _'azaz_: i.e. battle that prevailed against Israel....
_Therefore_should be simply AND. _the strength of battle_ THE VIOLENCE OF WAR, which (as in ch. Isaiah 9:18 ff. etc.) is compared to a fire. _he knew not_ i.e. "understood it not;" hardly, "heeded it...
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 enigma of Israel's history is that Jehovah its God has given it over to its enemies, a truth which the nation as a whole has never yet laid to heart. _for a spoil_ A better reading (which is prob...
THEREFORE HE HATH POURED, &C.— The force and elegance of the metaphor in this verse is very great. Of all natural evils which affect the human mind, which arouse and awaken it, none do so with greater...
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...
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. HE HATH...
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....
THE FURY OF HIS ANGER. — Better, _the burning heat of His wrath, and the violence of war._ Historically, the words seem to find a better fulfiment in the “wars and rumours of wars” (Matthew 24:6) than...
וַ יִּשְׁפֹּ֤ךְ עָלָיו֙ חֵמָ֣ה אַפֹּ֔ו וֶ עֱז
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...
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...
REFLECTIONS Lord! help both him that writes, and him that reads, to attend to thy call; and while Jehovah is proclaiming concerning his dear Son; and describing him as a most blessed Saviour; O for gr...
25._Therefore he hath poured upon him. _Because the chastisements by which the Lord had begun, and would afterwards continue, to punish the Jews, were very severe, the Prophet employs metaphorical lan...
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...
THEREFORE HE HATH POURED UPON HIM THE FURY OF HIS ANGER,.... The Lord was angry with these people for their rejection of the Messiah, and contempt of his Gospel; and therefore his wrath came upon them...
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid [it] not to heart. Ver. 2...
_Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury_, &c. Most grievous judgments. _It hath set him on fire round about_ This was literally fulfilled when the Chaldean army took their city, and burned both it...
THE WRATH OF GOD UPON ISRAEL...
Therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger and the strength of battle, the fury of warfare; AND IT HATH SET HIM, Israel, the Lord's people, ON FIRE ROUND ABOUT; YET HE KNEW NOT, did not r...
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...
THE FURY OF HIS ANGER, AND THE STRENGTH OF BATTLE; most grievous judgments. YET HE KNEW NOT; they were secure and stupid under God's judgments, neither fearing them when threatened, nor truly sensible...
Isaiah 42:25 poured H8210 (H8799) fury H2534 anger H639 strength H5807 battle H4421 fire H3857 (H8762) around...
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...
_It hath set him on fire round about_ PLAYING WITH FIRE Because of their unfaithfulness, God gave up His people to divers judgments, and yet the prophet has to deplore that Israel failed to recognis...
_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...
2 Kings 25:9; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 20:34; Ezekiel 22:21;...