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HEAR, YE DEAF - This is evidently an address to the Jews, and probably
to the Jews of the time of the prophet. He had been predicting the
coming of the Messiah, and the influence of his religion on th...
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CHAPTER 42
The True Servant of Jehovah
1. _The Servant of Jehovah and His mission (Isaiah 42:1)_ 2. _His
future work among the nations (Isaiah 42:5)_ 3. The future song of
redemption glory (Isaiah 42...
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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
capti...
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HEAR. Note the call to hear in the Structure, corresponding with the
call in Isaiah 42:23....
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_look_and _see_ ARE distinguished as in 2 Kings 3:14; Job 35:5, &c.;
the former is to direct the gaze towards, the latter to take in the
significance of an object....
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An expostulation with Israel for its insensibility to the privileges
it has enjoyed. The passage is of considerable interest for the light
which it throws on the sense in which the title "Servant of t...
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HEAR, YE DEAF, &C.— The prophet, having foretold the future
illumination and conversion of the Gentiles, and the abolition of
idolatry, takes an occasion thence to reprove the Jews for their
blindness...
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c. SIGHTLESS SERVANTS
TEXT: Isaiah 42:18-25
18
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send?
who is blind as he that i...
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Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
HEAR, YE DEAF - namely, to the voice of God.
LOOK, YE BLIND - to your duty and interest; willfully so (.) In this
they differ from "the blind...
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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, considered as Je...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 42
The *Old Testament calls several people ‘the *Lord’s servant’.
Moses is...
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God appointed Isaiah to be his special messenger (a servant who
carries a message) to the people in Israel. But, at the same time, God
warned Isaiah that the people would not listen (see Isaiah 6:9-10...
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HEAR, YE DEAF... — The words form the beginning of a new section.
The prophet feels or sees that the great argument has not carried
conviction as it ought to have done. The people to whom Jehovah spea...
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הַ חֵרְשִׁ֖ים שְׁמָ֑עוּ וְ הַ
עִוְרִ֖ים הַבִּ
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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CHAPTER XVI
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD
Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...
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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 of I...
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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 _temporary_,...
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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 is d...
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_Deaf Jews, who would not listen to the prophets, ver. 19. (Calmet)_...
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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 t...
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18._O ye deaf, hear, and ye blind. _He now employs these words,
“blind” and “deaf,” in a sense different from that in which he
formerly employed them, (verse 16,) when he metaphorically described
thos...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43.
Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised
up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made
of...
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HEAR, YE DEAF; AND LOOK, YE BLIND, THAT YE MAY SEE. Jarchi and Kimchi
think these words are spoken to Israel, who, as Aben Ezra says, were
deaf and blind in heart; but they are rather an exhortation t...
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Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Ver. 18. _Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind._] Ye who, as so many sea
monsters or deaf adders, will not hear, and as so many blind moles
will not s...
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_Hear, ye deaf_, &c. O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or
Gentiles, who shall resist this clear light, and obstinately continue
in your former errors, attend diligently to my words, and consider...
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THE WRATH OF GOD UPON ISRAEL...
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Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see, so the prophet now
addresses the people of Israel in general, on account of their
spiritual callousness, which is rapidly turning into hardness of
h...
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18-25 Observe the call given to this people, and the character given
of them. Multitudes are ruined for want of observing that which they
cannot but see; they perish, not through ignorance, but carel...
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O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or Gentiles, which shall resist
this clear light, and obstinately continue in your former errors,
attend diligently to my words, and consider these mighty works...
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Isaiah 42:18 Hear H8085 (H8798) deaf H2795 look H5027 (H8685) blind
H5787 see H7200 (H8800)
ye deaf
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THE SAD PRESENT STATE OF GOD'S SERVANT, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM (ISAIAH
42:18).
The glory of the future is now brought down to earth by a recognition
of the present condition of God's servant. In contrast...
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CONTENTS: Christ, servant of Jehovah. Chastening of Israel and the
final restoration.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all who have contradicted and
blasphemed the Gospel of...
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Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant._ In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so
the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17. All other
applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Christ took...
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_Hear, ye deaf_
DIVINE EXPOSTULATION
Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has
reason to expostulate with us.
1. We are deaf, in a spiritual sense, when we do not attend t...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 42:18 God promises to help his confused people
understand that he is their only Savior.
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BLIND IN THE SUNLIGHT
Isaiah 42:18. _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 them, both i...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 42:1
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL
PERFORM. There are comparatively few
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Now God speaks of another servant. This is His righteous servant, even
Jesus Christ. And now Isaiah begins to prophesy concerning Christ, the
servant of God.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine el...
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Exodus 4:11; Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 43:8; Luke 7:22; Mark 7:34;...