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Text -- Isaiah 42:14-25 (NET)
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42:14 “I have been inactive for a long time ; I kept quiet and held back . Like a woman in labor I groan ; I pant and gasp .
42:15 I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation . I will turn streams into islands , and dry up pools of water.
42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way ; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled . I will turn the darkness in front of them into light , and level out the rough ground . This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
42:17 Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated , those who say to metal images , ‘You are our gods .’”
The Lord Reasons with His People
42:18 “Listen , you deaf ones! Take notice , you blind ones!
42:19 My servant is truly blind , my messenger is truly deaf . My covenant partner, the servant of the Lord , is truly blind .
42:20 You see many things, but don’t comprehend ; their ears are open , but do not hear .”
42:21 The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.
42:22 But these people are looted and plundered ; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons . They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder , and no one says , “Bring that back !”
42:23 Who among you will pay attention to this ? Who will listen attentively in the future ?
42:24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber ? Who handed Israel over to the looters ? Was it not the Lord , against whom we sinned ? They refused to follow his commands ; they disobeyed his law .
42:25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war . Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Isaiah, The Book of |
Isaiah |
Blindness |
Jesus, The Christ |
Impenitence |
God |
Idolatry |
WRATH, (ANGER) |
Blind |
ANGELS |
Afflictions and Adversities |
POOL |
EAST |
ISLE |
Anger |
Darkness |
Regeneration |
Justification |
Wisdom |
Self-will |
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NET Notes: Isa 42:14 The imagery depicts the Lord as a warrior who is eager to fight and can no longer hold himself back from the attack.
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NET Notes: Isa 42:15 The imagery of this verse, which depicts the Lord bringing a curse of infertility to the earth, metaphorically describes how the Lord will destroy his...
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NET Notes: Isa 42:19 Heb “Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like my messenger I send? Who is blind like my commissioned one, blind like the servant of the Lord?&...
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NET Notes: Isa 42:20 Heb “but you do not guard [i.e., retain in your memory]”; NIV “but have paid no attention.”
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NET Notes: Isa 42:21 Heb “The Lord was pleased for the sake of his righteousness [or “justice”], he was magnifying [the] law and was making [it] glorious...
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NET Notes: Isa 42:22 Heb “they became loot and there was no one rescuing, plunder and there was no one saying, ‘Bring back’.”
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NET Notes: Isa 42:23 The interrogative particle is understood in the second line by ellipsis (note the preceding line).
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NET Notes: Isa 42:24 Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.”
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