Isaiah 42:1
Lo! my Servant, I will uphold him, My chosen, well-pleased is my soul,—I have put my spirit upon him, Justice—to the nations, will he bring forth:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2He will not cry out nor will he speak loud,—Nor cause to be heard, in the street, his voice:
Cross References
Psalms 89:4Unto times age-abiding, will I establish thy seed, And will build up, unto generation after generation, thy throne. [Selah.]
Isaiah 2:4And he will judge between the nations, And be umpire to many peoples,—And they will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-hooks, Nation—against nation, shall not lift up sword, Neither shall they learn any more to make war,
Isaiah 32:16Then shall, justice inhabit, the wilderness, And righteousness, in the garden-land, shall abide;
Isaiah 43:10Ye, are my witnesses Declareth Yahweh, And my Servant, whom I have chosen,—That ye may take note—and believe me, And perceive that, I, am He, Before me, was not formed a GOD, Nor after me, shall one come into being:
Isaiah 50:4My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse,—He kept wakening—morning by morning. He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken as do the instructed;
Isaiah 52:13Lo! my Servant, prospereth,—He riseth, and is lifted up, and becometh very high:
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 →