Isaiah 42:14

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I HAVE LONG TIME - namely, during the desolation of Israel (Isaiah 32:14). HOLDEN MY PEACE - (cf. Psalms 50:21; Habakkuk 1:2.) (NOW) WILL I CRY LIKE A TRAVAILING WOMAN ... - like a woman in parturition, who, after having restrained her breathing for a time, at last, overcome with labour-pain, lets out her voice with a panting sigh; so Yahweh will give full vent to His long pent-up wrath. I WILL DESTROY AND DEVOUR AT ONCE (Hebrew,...

14._I have kept silence. _The Prophet meets the temptations which commonly give us great uneasiness, when God delays his aid. We are tempted by impatience, and dread that his promises are false. We reckon it unreasonable that God should be silent, and fall asleep, so to speak, while the wicked carry themselves high; that he should be cool, while they burn with eagerness to do mischief; and that he should wink at their crimes, while they keenly pursue every kind of cruelty. When their minds were distressed and almost overwhelmed, the Prophet wished to comfort them, that they might not think that God had forsaken them, though everything appeared to be desperate. _For a long time. _He expressly mentions “the great length of time,” that their hearts might not languish through the tedious delay; for when they had been broken down by almost incessant calamities since the death of Jehoshaphat,...

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 sleeping world. He shall conquer by the power of his Spirit. And those that contradict and blaspheme his gospel, he shall put to silence and shame; and that which hinders its progress shall be taken out of the way. To those who by nature were blind, God will show the way to life and happiness by Jesus Christ. They are weak in knowledge, but He will make darkness light. They are weak in duty, but their way shall be plain. Those whom God brings into the right way, he will guide in it. This passage is a prophecy, and is also applicable to every believer; for the Lord will never leave nor forsake them....

Verse Isaiah 42:14. _I HAVE BEEN STILL_ - "Shall I keep silence for ever"] After מעולם _meolam_, in the copy which the _Septuagint_ had before them, followed the word הלעולם, _heleolam_, εσιωπησα απ' αιωνος· Μη και αει σιωπησομαι· according to MSS. _Pachom_. and I. D. II. and Edit. _Complut_., which word, הלעולם _haleolam_, has been omitted in the text by an easy mistake of a transcriber, because of the similitude of the word preceding. _Shall I always keep silence_? like that of _Juvenal_: Semper ego auditor tantum? _Shall I always be_ _a hearer only_?...

I HAVE LONG TIME HOLDEN MY PEACE - This is the language of Yahweh, and it means that he had for a long time been patient and forbearing; but that now he would go forth as a warrior to overpower and destroy his foes. I WILL DESTROY - The word used here (from נשׁם _nâsham_) denotes properly to breathe hard, to pant, as a woman in travail; and then to breathe hard in any manner. It here denotes the hard breathing which is indicative of anger, or a purpose to execute vengeance. AND DEVOUR AT ONCE - Margin, ‘Swallow,’ or ‘Sup up.’ The word שׁאף _sha'aph_ means rather “to breathe hard, to pant, to blow, as in anger, or in the haste of pursuit.” The idea in the verse is, that Yahweh had for a long time restrained his anger against his foes, and had refrained from executing vengeance on them. But now

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 42:1 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM. There are comparatively few who deny that, in this place at any rate, the "Servant of the Lord" is the Messiah. (So the Targum on the passage; so Abar-barnel; so, among moderns, Oehler, Delitzsch, and Mr. Cheyne.) The portraiture has "so strong an individuality and such marked personal features, that it cannot possibly be a mere personified collective;" and it goes so "infinitely _beyond _anything of which a man was ever capable that it can only be the future Christ" (Delitzsch). It may be added that St. Matthew ...

I HAVE LONG TIME HOLDEN MY PEACE,.... For many hundred years the Lord suffered the Gentile world to walk in their own ways, to worship their idols, and took no notice of them; he winked at and overlooked their times of ignorance, and did not bring down his vengeance upon them, nor stir up all his wrath; nor indeed did he send any among them, to reprove and convince them of their errors, and threaten them with "ruin", in case of their continuance in them: I HAVE BEEN STILL, AND REFRAINED MYSELF; had been silent, and said nothing against them in a providential way, but curbed and kept in his wrath and displeasure at their idolatry, as a woman in travail "holds in" y her breath as long as she can; to which the allusion is, as appears by what follows: NOW WILL I CRY LIKE A TRAVAILING WOMAN; when sharp pains are upon her, and just going to be delivered; and that so loud as to be heard all o...

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 put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles._ Of whom speaketh the prophet this, but of the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth? He was upheld by the mighty power of God. He was the Lord's chosen. The Spirit of God rested upon him, and this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears, for he hath brought forth righteousness to the Gentiles. Isaiah 42:2. _He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street._ He shall be no clamorous seeker after applause. He shall not shout as those that seek for the mastery. Now the Saviour

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 42:10)_ 4. _Jehovah's manifestation in power (Isaiah 42:14)_ 5. _The address of exhortation to the deaf and blind nation (Isaiah 42:18) _ Matthew's Gospel (Matthew 12:20) tells us that this servant is the Lord Jesus Christ. Mark t

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 foes: but His people He will bring carefully and tenderly home, thus overwhelming the idolators with shame. ISAIAH 42:15. ISLANDS: read, parched ground. Isaiah 42:16. Read, on the way, and omit the next four words. FORSAKE: leave undone....