Isaiah 42:1
Jacob is my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard without.
Cross References
Psalms 89:4For a thousand years in thy sight are 1 As the yesterday which is past, 1 And as a watch in the night. 1
Isaiah 2:4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war anymore.
Isaiah 32:16Then judgment shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.
Isaiah 43:10Be ye my witnesses, and I too am a witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know, and believe, and understand that I am he: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord even God gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word: he has appointed for me early, he has given me an ear to hear:
Isaiah 52:13Behold, my servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:1
The prophet seems here to launch out yet further into the prophecy of the Messiah and his kingdom under the type of Cyrus; and, having the great work of man's salvation by him yet more in view, he almost forgets the occasion that led him into it and drops the return out of Babylon; for indeed the prospect of this would be a greater comfort and support to the believing pious Jews, in their captivity, than the hope of that. And (as Mr. Gataker well observes) in this and similar prophecies of Christ, that are couched… Read the whole commentary →