Isaiah 42:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. ”

Isaiah 42:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake - There is great variety in the translation and interpretation of this verse. Lowth renders it: Yet Yahweh was gracious unto him for his tr...
Isaiah 42:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Piteous Plight, a Punishment from Yahweh. The prophet bids the people, who have not recognised Yahweh's working in their distresses, look beneath the surface. To all appearance they are ca...
Isaiah 42:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He will magnify the law. Note the correspondence with Isaiah 42:24 .
Isaiah 42:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. The Lord is well pleased. In order to aggravate still more the guilt of the Jews, he now shews that it was not God who prevented them from leading a prosperous and happy life. He had alr...
Isaiah 42:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. He win magnify the law "He hath exalted his own praise" - For תורה torah, the law, the Septuag...
Isaiah 42:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Lord is well pleased— Jehovah took delight in him for his righteousness sake; he hath magnified him by his law, and made him honourable. Vitringa. The meaning of the passage is very clear fro...
Isaiah 42:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake - not His people's, but His own; I...
Isaiah 42:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Ideal Servant 1-9. The characteristics and functions of Israel as the ideal Servant of Jehovah. 10-17 A song of praise to Jehovah. 18-25. The deficiencies of the actual Israel, considere...
Isaiah 42:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Lord is well pleased... — The tenses require a change: The Lord was well pleased ... He made His law great and glorious. This had been His purpose, and he had not failed in it. He had don...
Isaiah 42:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance...
Isaiah 42:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Deaf and Blind Messenger Isaiah 42:14-25 There are times in our lives when God seems to hold His peace. Evil is rife, bad men prosper, society lies under the spell of vice. It is only tempor...
Isaiah 42:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The manifesto now presents the great Servant of Jehovah. His person is first described. His manifestation is announced (verse Isaiah 42:1 ), His mission is declared (verse Isaiah 42:1 ), His method...
Isaiah 42:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here, as in the former Chapter s, the contrast is drawn between the Lord Jehovah, and the idols of the nations around; and the striking difference which marks the several worshippers is made between...
Isaiah 42:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake ,.... This may be either understood of what the Lord had done for these people in time past, and which is mentioned as an aggravation of their stu...
Isaiah 42:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make [it] honourable. Ver. 21. The Lord is well pleased; he will magnify his law, &c. ] Or, To magnify his la...
Isaiah 42:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord is well pleased , &c. Although thou art a wicked people, that rebellest against the clearest light, and therefore God might justly destroy thee suddenly, yet he will patiently wait for...
Isaiah 42:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Blindness of the Jews. B. C. 708. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye ma...
Isaiah 42:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is well-pleased, to wit, with you; or, as this word is most commonly used, hath a good-will to you or to this people ; which may be understood out of the following verse, as is very usual in sac...
Isaiah 42:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Sad Present State of God's Servant, The Seed of Abraham ( Isaiah 42:18-25 ). The glory of the future is now brought down to earth by a recognition of the present condition of God's servant. In...
Isaiah 42:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

BLIND IN THE SUNLIGHT Isaiah 42:18-20 . Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, &c. Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has reason to expostulate with us. We succeed t...
Isaiah 42:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 42:1 . Behold my servant. In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17-20 . All other applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Chri...
Isaiah 42:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake The broken law magnified I. THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS PARTY HERE SPOKEN OF. “The Lord,” or, as in the original, “Jehovah,” the righteous Judge,...
Isaiah 42:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 42:1-23 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD , AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM . There are comparatively few who deny that, in this place a...
Isaiah 42:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Wrath of God upon Israel
Isaiah 42:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:4 ; 1 John 3:5 ; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21 ; Daniel 9:24-27 ; Galatians 3:13 ; Galatians 3:21 ; Galatians 5:22 ; Galatians 5:23 ; Hebrews 8:10 ; Isaiah 1:24-27 ; Isaiah 46:12 ; Isaia...
Isaiah 42:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Well pleased — Altho' God might justly destroy thee suddenly, yet he will patiently wait for thy repentance, that he may be gracious; and that not for thy sake, but for the glory of his own faithfu...

Isaiah 42:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 42:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 42:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 42:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 42:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 42:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 42:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 42:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 42:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 42:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes