Isaiah 42:11
Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let them give glory to LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And LORD said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger.
Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Isaiah 21:16For thus LORD has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
Isaiah 35:1The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad. And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 40:3The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 43:19Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:6-13
The Messiah's Approach. ( b. c. 708.) 5 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: 6 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; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that… Read the whole commentary →