Isaiah 42:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 53:2-12
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. …
Genesis 49:10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Isaiah 52:13-15
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. …
Isaiah 55:5
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

We are sure that these verses are to be understood of Christ, for the evangelist tells us expressly that in him this prophecy was fulfilled, Matt. 12:17-21. Behold with an eye of faith, behold and observe, behold and admire, my servant, whom I uphold. Let the Old-Testament saints behold and remember him. Now what must we behold and consider concerning him? I. The Father’s concern for him and relat…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. fail--faint; man in religion may become as the almost expiring flax-wick (Is 42:3), but not so He in His purposes of grace. discouraged--literally, “broken,” that is, checked in zeal by discouragements (compare Is 49:4, 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…