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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 42:4 - 42:4
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fail - faint; man in religion may become as the almost expiring flax-wick (Isa 42:3), but not so He in His purposes of grace.
discouraged - literally, “broken,” that is, checked in zeal by discouragements (compare Isa 49:4, Isa 49:5). Rosenmuller not so well translates, “He shall not be too slow on the one hand, nor run too hastily on the other.”
judgment - His true religion, the canon of His judgments and righteous reign.
isles ... wait, etc. - The distant lands beyond sea shall put their trust in His gospel way of salvation. Mat 12:21 virtually gives the sense, with the inspired addition of another aspect of the same thing, “In his name shall the Gentiles trust” (as “wait for” here means, Isa 30:18). “His law” is not something distinct from Himself, but is indeed Himself, the manifestation of God’s character (“name”) in Christ, who is the embodiment of the law (Isa 42:21; Jer 23:6; Rom 10:4). “Isles” here, and in Isa 42:12, may refer to the fact that the populations of which the Church was primarily formed were Gentiles of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean.