Passage Research
Isaiah 42 — Sermon Preparation
The first Servant Song presents the Lord's chosen one who will bring justice to the nations quietly and will not fail until he establishes it on earth. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 42, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 25
- verses
- 288 / 181
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 11
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 42 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עִוֵּר | ʻivvêr | H5787 | 6 | blind |
| אִי | ʼîy | H339 | 4 | habitable spot, dry land |
| שָׁמַע | shâmaʻ | H8085 | 6 | hear, tell |
| שׂוּם | sûwm | H7760 | 5 | put |
| תְּהִלָּה | tᵉhillâh | H8416 | 3 | laudation, hymn |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 5 | give, put |
| יָצָא | yâtsâʼ | H3318 | 4 | go, bring |
How preachers through history handled this text
11 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 42, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“THE BLIND MAN'S GUIDE I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.'--ISAIAH xlii. 16. The grand stormy verses before these words, with all their dread array of natural convulsions, have one object--the tender guidance promised in the text. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 42:16–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Kedar— Isa 42:11
- Sela 2— Isa 42:11
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