Isaiah 42:10-12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Isaiah 42:10 ; Isaiah 42:12. Sing unto the Lord a new song Upon this new and great occasion, the salvation of the world by Christ. It is with peculiar propriety and elegance that the nations are here called upon and exhorted to praise and extol Jehovah, for the singular blessing conferred upon them by the gospel. And his praise from the end of the earth All nations, from one end of the earth to another. Ye that go down to the sea You that go by sea, carry these glad tidings from Judea, where Christ was born, and lived, and died, and published the gospel, unto the remotest parts of the earth. Let the wilderness, &c. Those parts of the world which are now desolate and forsaken of God, and barren of all good fruits. The villages that Kedar doth inhabit The Arabians, who were a heathen and barbarous people, and are put for all nations. Let them shout from the top of the mountains Whose inhabitants are commonly more savage and ignorant than others. Let them declare his praise in the islands In the remotest parts of the world, as well as in Arabia, which was near to them.

Isaiah 42:10-12

10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.