Isaiah 42:4

Isaiah 42:4

2 He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

3 A bruised reed He will not break,
And¹ smoking flax He will not quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth.

4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
^aAnd the coastlands shall wait for His law.”

5 Thus says God the Lord,
^aWho created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
^bWho gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:

6 “I,^a the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You ^band give You as a covenant to the people,
As ^ca light to the Gentiles,

7 ^aTo open blind eyes,
To ^bbring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in ^cdarkness from the prison house.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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fail—faint; man in religion may become as the almost expiring flax-wick (Isaiah 42:3), but not so He in His purposes of grace.

discouraged—literally, "broken," that is, checked in zeal by discouragements (compare Isaiah 49:4-5). ROSENMULLER not so well translates, "He shall not be too slow on the one hand, nor run too hastily on the other."

judgment—His true religion, the canon of His judgments and righteous reign.

isles . . . wait, etc.—The distant lands beyond sea shall put their trust in His gospel way of salvation. Matthew 12:21 virtually gives the sense, with the inspired addition of another aspect of the same thing, "In his name shall the Gentiles trust" (as "wait for" here means, Isaiah 30:18). "His law" is not something distinct from Himself, but is indeed Himself, the manifestation of God's character ("name") in Christ, who is the embodiment of the law (Isaiah 42:21; Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 10:4). "Isles" here, and in Isaiah 42:12, may refer to the fact that the populations of which the Church was primarily formed were Gentiles of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean.

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