Isaiah 42:25

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 POURED UPON HIM THE FURY OF HIS ANGER. "Upon him" - Israel (). AND THE STRENGTH OF BATTLE - the violence of war. AND IT - the battle, or war (cf. ). HATH SET HIM ON FIRE ROUND ABOUT, YET HE KNOW NOT - knew not the lesson of repentance which the judgment was intended to teach (; ; ). Remarks: God the Fat...

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 language to express their vehemence. He says that the Lord _poureth out his fury, _as if a thunderbolt were discharged with violence, or as if waters burst forth, to spread devastation far and wide on the surrounding country; just as, at the deluge, when “the flood-gates of the deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,” (Genesis 7:11,) the waters burst forth with prodigious force and violence. _And the strength of war. _He next employs a different figure, that God assembles his forces to make war, that he may attack the people with unrelenting hostility. If this be supposed to mean the enemies whom the Lord raised up against the Jews, I do not gr

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 carelessness. The Lord is well-pleased in the making known his own righteousness. For their sins they were spoiled of all their possessions. This fully came to pass in the destruction of the Jewish nation. There is no resisting, nor escaping God's anger. See the mischief sin makes; it provokes God to anger. And those not humbled by lesser judgments, must expect greater. Alas! how many professed Christians are blind as the benighted heathen! While the Lord is well-pleased in saving sinners through the righteousness of Christ he will also glorify his justice, by punishing all proud despisers. Seeing God has poured out his wrath on his once-favoured people, because of their sins, let us fear, lest a...

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 thoroughly hardened are the Jewish people, that they are represented as being in a house on fire, and even scorched with the flames, without perceiving their danger, or feeling that they are hurt! What a picture of mental induration! and this is their state to the present day. But by whom shall Jacob arise? for in this sense he is small indeed. Many efforts have been made to Christianize them, but without effect; and is this to be wondered at, while we tell them how great they are, how learned, how wise, how much we owe to them, that they are still the peculiar people of God, c., c.? If all this be true, what can they gain by becoming Christians?

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 distant land. AND IT HATH SET HIM ON FIRE - That is, the fury of Yahweh kindled the flame of war all around the Jewish nation, and spread desolation everywhere. YET HE KNEW NOT - They refused to attend to it, and lay it to heart. They pursued their ways of wickedness, regardless of the threatening judgments, and the impending wrath of God. They did not consider that these evils were inflicted for their crimes, nor did they turn from their sins when they were thus threatened with the wrath of God....

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 ...

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 to the uttermost, not in some small drops, but in great abundance, to the utter ruin of their nation, city, and temple. Josephus says e, "the Romans came to subdue Palestine, but their coming was the pouring out of the heat of the wrath of the Lord:'' AND THE STRENGTH OF BATTLE; or "war"; all the miseries and calamities that are the effects of war. The Targum is, "he hath brought upon them the strength of his warriors;'' the Roman soldiers: AND IT HATH SET HIM ON FIRE ROUND ABOUT, YET HE KNEW NOT; AND IT BURNED HIM, YET HE LAID IT NOT TO HEART; the Roman army set fire first to the lower part of the city of Jerusalem, and then the higher f, and wholly consumed it; and yet this has not 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 42:10)_ 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

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 captives whom none can deliver. Will none of them see that Yahweh Himself is the author of their misfortune? He has chastised them, though they have not understood the discipline. ISAIAH 42:19. A gloss, identifying the blind and deaf of Isaiah 42:18; a second gloss (Isaiah 42:19_ b_) has been added. Both take Yahweh's Servant to be Israel. AT PEACE WITH ME: difficult; perhaps read, my devoted one. Isaiah 42:21

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....