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19 aWho is blind but My servant,
Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord’s servant? 
20 Seeing many things, abut you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear.” 

Israel’s Obstinate Disobedience

21 The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
22 But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are1 snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!” 
23 Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord,
He against whom we have sinned?
aFor they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law. 
25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
aIt has set him on fire all around,
bYet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to cheart. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 42:21

his righteousness—not His people's, but His own; Isaiah 42:24 shows that they had no righteousness (Isaiah 45:24; Isaiah 59:16). God is well pleased with His Son ("in whom My soul delighteth," Isaiah 42:1), "who fulfils all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15) for them, and with them for His sake (compare Isaiah 42:6; Psalms 71:16, Psalms 71:19; Matthew 5:17; Romans 10:3-4; Philippians 3:9). Perhaps in God's "righteousness" here is included His faithfulness to His promises given to Israel's forefathers [ROSENMULLER]; because of this He is well pleased with Israel, even though displeased with their sin, which He here reproves; but that promise could only be based on the righteousness of Messiah, the promised seed, which is God's righteousness.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 42:21:

Job 1:6
Song of Solomon 2:6
Isaiah 1:27
Isaiah 9:7
Isaiah 42:1
Isaiah 42:4
Isaiah 42:6
Isaiah 42:19
Isaiah 42:22
Isaiah 45:21
Isaiah 46:13
Isaiah 59:16
Zechariah 9:9
1 Corinthians 1:30

 

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