Isaiah Chapter 42

God’s Promise concerning His Servant

42:1 See my servant, whom I support; my chosen, [in whom] my soulנַפְשִׁי
Pronunciation:nap̄šî feminine noun Meaning: my soul, my self, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being,my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here delights; I have put My Spiritרוּחַ
Transliteration: rûaḥ Pronunciation: roo’-akh feminine noun Meaning: wind, breath, mind, spirit For more info click here in him: he will bring out judgment to the nationsלַגּוֹיִם‎
pronounced: lagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here.
42:2 He will not cry, or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.
42:3 He will not [even] crush a broken reed , or even put out the smoking wick: he will faithfully administer justice.
42:4 He will not grow faint or be discouraged, until he sets justice in the land: and the islands will long for his Torah וּלְתוֹרָתוֹ‎
Pronounced ûlṯôrāṯô; and for his law, for his teaching, for his direction, for his instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot..
42:5 So says the EL הָאֵל
‎Pronunciation:hā’ēl — masculine noun — the God, the god-like one, the mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, he that created the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here, and spread them out; he that stretched out the earth, and everything that grows from it; who gives breath to the people on it, and the spiritוְרוּחַ
Pronunciation:vᵊrûaḥ feminine noun Meaning: and wind, and breath, and mind, and spirit For more info click here to those that walk on it:
42:6 I YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here who called you with righteousnessבְצֶדֶק‎
Pronunciation:ḇᵊṣeḏeq For more info click here, and will hold your hand, and will protect you, I will give you for a covenant to the people, for a light to the nationsהַגּוֹיִם‎
pronounced: hagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here;
42:7 To open the blind eyes, to free a prisoner from confinement, and those that sit in darkness from the dungeon.
42:8 I am YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here: that is my name: and my glory I will not give to any other, or my praise to idols.
42:9 See how the former predictions come true, now I declare new things: before they sprout I will tell you about them.
42:10 Sing to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ya’ll that go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the islands, and its inhabitants.
42:11 Let the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, where cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs): —desert, south, speech, wilderness. For more info click here and its cities raise [their voices], the villages where Kedar lives: let those who live in Sela sing, let them shout from the mountaintops.
42:12 Let them give glory to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and proclaim his praise in the islands.
42:13 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will go out like a mighty warrior, he will stir up vengeance like a man of war: he will shout, even roar; he will overpower his enemies.

The Blindness of the People

42:14 I have long time kept silent; I have been still, and refrained myself: [but now] will I cry out like a woman in labor I will both destroy and swallow up.
42:15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and wither all their vegetation; and I will turn the rivers into islands, and I will dry up the lakes.
42:16 And I will lead the blind by a roadדֶּרֶךְ
Pronunciation:bᵊḏereḵ on/in a way, on/in a road, on/in a distance, on/in a journey, on/in a manner, on/in a path, on/in a direction, toward For more info click here that they never knew; on paths that they didn’t know I will have them walk; I will turn darkness into light before them, and straighten their twisted paths. These are things I will do without fail.
42:17 They will withdraw to the rear, and be deeply ashamed, those that trust in carved idols, those that say to the molten idols, Ya’ll are our gods.
42:18 O, ya’ll deaf ones, listen; and  ya’ll blind ones, so that ya’ll may see.
42:19 Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, like My messengerכְּמַלְאָכִי‎
Plural :מַלְאָכִים Pronunciation:kᵊmal’āḵî like/as my angel, like/as my messenger, like/as my agent, like/as my ambassador or like/as my representative. For more info click here [that] I send? Who is blind like the perfect man? Blind like the servant of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here?
42:20 Seeing many things, but you don’t pay attention; opening ears, but but not listening.
42:21 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here desire for the sake of [Israel’s] righteousnessצִדְקוֹ‎
Pronunciation:ṣiḏqô the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity:—× even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness). For more info click here that the Torahתּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. be made great and glorious.
42:22 But it is a robbed and plundered people;  all of them trapped in holes, and hidden away in prisons: they are looted no one to rescue them; plundered with no one to say, Give it back.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear the outcome?
42:24 Who delivered Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here to plunder, and Israel to looters? Wasn’t it YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, He against Whom we have sinned? for they wouldn’t walk in His ways, and didn’t listen to His Torahבְּתוֹרָתוֹ‎
Pronounced:bᵊṯôrāṯô – to His law, to His teaching, to His direction, to His instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot..
42:25 So He poured out the fury of His anger on him, and the power of war: It has engulfed him in flames, yet he learned nothing; and it burned him, yet he didn’t take it to heart.