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Text -- Isaiah 42:8-25 (NET)
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The Lord Intervenes
42:8 I am the Lord ! That is my name ! I will not share my glory with anyone else , or the praise due me with idols .
42:9 Look , my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass ; now I announce new events . Before they begin to occur , I reveal them to you.”
42:10 Sing to the Lord a brand new song ! Praise him from the horizon of the earth , you who go down to the sea , and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there!
42:11 Let the desert and its cities shout out , the towns where the nomads of Kedar live ! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully ; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops .
42:12 Let them give the Lord the honor he deserves; let them praise his deeds in the coastlands .
42:13 The Lord emerges like a hero , like a warrior he inspires himself for battle ; he shouts , yes , he yells , he shows his enemies his power .
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 |
Isaiah, The Book of |
Blindness |
Gentiles |
Church |
God |
Impenitence |
Jesus, The Christ |
GOD, 2 |
Kedar |
Praise |
SERVANT OF JEHOVAH; SERVANT OF THE LORD; SERVANT OF YAHWEH |
Island |
Idolatry |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
WRATH, (ANGER) |
Blind |
Glory |
CRY, CRYING |
Wilderness |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Isa 42:9; Isa 42:9; Isa 42:10; Isa 42:10; Isa 42:10; Isa 42:12; Isa 42:12; Isa 42:13; Isa 42:13; Isa 42:14; Isa 42:14; Isa 42:15; Isa 42:15; Isa 42:15; Isa 42:16; Isa 42:16; Isa 42:16; Isa 42:17; Isa 42:18; Isa 42:19; Isa 42:19; Isa 42:20; Isa 42:20; Isa 42:21; Isa 42:22; Isa 42:22; Isa 42:22; Isa 42:23; Isa 42:24; Isa 42:24; Isa 42:25; Isa 42:25; Isa 42:25
NET Notes: Isa 42:9 Heb “before they sprout up, I cause you to hear.” The pronoun “you” is plural, referring to the people of Israel. In this vers...
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NET Notes: Isa 42:13 Or perhaps, “he triumphs over his enemies” (cf. NIV); NLT “will crush all his enemies.”
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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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