Isaiah 42

Here Is My Servant// Matthew 12:15–21

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold,

My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights.

I will put My Spirit on Him,

and He will bring justice to the nations.

• IS 42:1[PROPHECY]The Servant → MT 12:18-21
• IS 42:1[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → MT 3:17
• IS 42:1[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → MT 12:18-21
• IS 42:1[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → MT 17:5
• IS 42:1[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → MK 1:11
• IS 42:1[ALLUDED TO]The New Testament refers to this → LK 3:22
• IS 42:1[QUOTED]Quoted in the New Testament → 2PE 1:17

²He will not cry out or raise His voice,

nor make His voice heard in the streets.

• IS 42:2[PROPHECY]Meek and lowly in heart → MT 11:28-30

³A bruised reed He will not break

and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish;

He will faithfully bring forth justice.

⁴He will not grow weak or discouraged

before He has established justice on the earth.

In His law the islands will put their hope.”

• IS 42:4[PROPHECY]The nations would wait on His teachings → JN 12:20-26MEDIUM

⁵This is what God Yahweh says—

He who created the heavens

and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and its offspring,

who gives breath to the people on it

and life to those who walk in it:

⁶“I, Yahweh, have called you

for a righteous purpose,

and I will take hold of your hand.

I will keep you and appoint you

to be a covenant for the people

and a light to the nations,

• IS 42:6[PROPHECY]The Light (salvation) of the Gentiles → LK 2:32

⁷to open the eyes of the blind,

to bring prisoners out of the dungeon

and those sitting in darkness

out from the prison house.

• IS 42:7[PROPHECY]He would open blind eyes → JN 9:25-38

⁸I am Yahweh;

that is My name!

I will not yield My glory to another

or My praise to idols.

• IS 42:8[DEMONIC]God will not give His praise to idols

⁹Behold, the former things have happened,

and now I declare new things.

Before they spring forth

I proclaim them to you.”

A New Song of Praise// Psalm 98:1–9; Psalm 149:1–9

¹⁰Sing to Yahweh a new song—

His praise from the ends of the earth—

you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,

you islands, and all who dwell in them.

¹¹Let the desert and its cities raise their voices;

let the villages of Kedar cry aloud.

Let the people of Sela sing for joy;

let them cry out from the mountaintops.

¹²Let them give glory to Yahweh

and declare His praise in the islands.

¹³Yahweh goes forth like a mighty one;

He stirs up His zeal like a warrior.

He shouts; yes, He roars

in triumph over His enemies:

¹⁴“I have kept silent from ages past;

I have remained quiet and restrained.

But now I will groan like a woman in labor;

I will at once gasp and pant.

¹⁵I will lay waste the mountains and hills

and dry up all their vegetation.

I will turn the rivers into dry land

and drain the marshes.

¹⁶I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;

I will guide them on unfamiliar paths.

I will turn darkness into light before them

and rough places into level ground.

These things I will do for them,

and I will not forsake them.

¹⁷But those who trust in idols

and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’

will be turned back in utter shame.

• IS 42:17[DEMONIC]Those who trust in idols are turned back in shame

Israel Is Deaf and Blind

¹⁸Listen, you deaf ones;

look, you blind ones, that you may see!

¹⁹Who is blind but My servant,

or deaf like the messenger I am sending?

Who is blind like My covenant partner,

or blind like the servant of Yahweh?

²⁰Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch.

Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

²¹Yahweh was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness,

to magnify His law and make it glorious.

• IS 42:21[PROPHECY]Yahweh would magnify His law and make it glorious → MT 5:17MEDIUM

²²But this is a people plundered and looted,

all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons.

They have become plunder with no one to rescue them,

and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

²³Who among you will pay attention to this?

Who will listen and obey hereafter?

²⁴Who gave Jacob up for spoil,

and Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not Yahweh,

against whom we have sinned?

They were unwilling to walk in His ways,

and they would not obey His law.

²⁵So He poured out on them His furious anger

and the fierceness of battle.

It enveloped them in flames,

but they did not understand;

it consumed them,

but they did not take it to heart.