Isaiah 42
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 42, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Isaiah 42:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Isaiah 42:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. {smoking: or, dimly burning} {quench: Heb. quench it}
Isaiah 42:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. {discouraged: Heb. broken}
Isaiah 42:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah 42:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 42:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, {and} them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isaiah 42:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I {am} the LORD: that {is} my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Isaiah 42:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Sing unto the LORD a new song, {and} his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {all...: Heb. the fulness thereof}
Isaiah 42:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up {their voice}, the villages {that} Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isaiah 42:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. {prevail: or, behave himself mightily}
Isaiah 42:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {devour: Heb. swallow, or, sup up}
Isaiah 42:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Isaiah 42:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will bring the blind by a way {that} they knew not; I will lead them in paths {that} they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. {straight: Heb. into straightness}
Isaiah 42:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye {are} our gods.
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Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Isaiah 42:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who {is} blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger {that} I sent? who {is} blind as {he that is} perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?
Isaiah 42:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make {it} honourable. {it: or, him}
Isaiah 42:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But this {is} a people robbed and spoiled; {they are} all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. {they are all...: or, in snaring all the young men of them} {for a spoil: Heb. a treading}
Isaiah 42:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who among you will give ear to this? {who} will hearken and hear for the time to come? {for...: Heb. for the after time?}
Isaiah 42:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Isaiah 42:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Isaiah 42:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.