8 I am the Lord, that is My name; And My aglory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Praise to the Lord
10aSing to the Lord a new song, And His praise from the ends of the earth, bYou who go down to the sea, and1 all that is in it, You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up theirvoice, The villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord, And declare His praise in the coastlands.
13 The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, ayes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies.
Promise of the Lord’s Help
14 “I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in1 labor, I will pant and gasp at once.
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers coastlands, And I will dry up the pools.
16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.
17 They shall be aturned back, They shall be greatly ashamed, Who trust in carved images, Who say to the molded images, ‘You are our gods.’
18 “Hear, you deaf; And look, you blind, that you may see.
19aWho is blind but My servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as hewhois perfect, And blind as the Lord’s servant?
new song—such as has never before been sung, called for by a new manifestation of God's grace, to express which no hymn for former mercies would be appropriate. The new song shall be sung when the Lord shall reign in Jerusalem, and all "nations shall flow unto it" (Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 26:1; Revelation 5:9; Revelation 14:3).
ye that go down to the sea—whose conversion will be the means of diffusing the Gospel to distant lands.
all . . . therein—all the living creatures that fill the sea (Psalms 96:11) [MAURER]. Or, all sailors and voyagers [GESENIUS]. But these were already mentioned in the previous clause: there he called on all who go upon the sea; in this clause all animals in the sea; so in Isaiah 42:11, he calls on the inanimate wilderness to lift up its voice. External nature shall be so renovated as to be in unison with the moral renovation.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 42:10:
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