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Isaiah
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“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. See also: Matthew 12:18-21Luke 3:22Isaiah 52:13He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. See also: Matthew 12:16-202 Timothy 2:241 Peter 2:23He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice. See also: Ezekiel 34:16Jeremiah 31:25Psalms 147:3He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice on the earth, and the islands wait for his law.” See also: Isaiah 53:2-12Isaiah 55:5Genesis 49:10God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says: See also: Isaiah 40:22Isaiah 45:12Jeremiah 10:12“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations, See also: John 8:12Luke 2:32Isaiah 26:3to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. See also: Ephesians 1:17-18Isaiah 61:1Isaiah 49:9“I am the LORD. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images. See also: Isaiah 48:11Isaiah 43:11Exodus 34:14Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.” See also: Isaiah 43:19Isaiah 46:9-10John 13:19Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants. See also: Psalms 33:3Romans 15:9-11Isaiah 42:4Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains! See also: Isaiah 32:16Isaiah 60:7Psalms 72:8-10Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. See also: Psalms 117:1-2Romans 15:9-11Psalms 22:27The LORD will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies. See also: Exodus 15:1-3Psalms 78:65Isaiah 59:16-19“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant. See also: Psalms 83:1-2Luke 18:7Jeremiah 44:22I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. See also: Isaiah 50:2Nahum 1:4-6Isaiah 44:27I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. See also: Isaiah 30:21Luke 3:5Isaiah 60:19-20“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed. See also: Psalms 97:7Isaiah 1:29Isaiah 44:11“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. See also: Isaiah 43:8Isaiah 29:18Mark 7:34-37Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant? See also: 2 Corinthians 4:4Jeremiah 5:21Ezekiel 12:2You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. See also: Deuteronomy 29:2-4John 11:37-50Psalms 106:7-13It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable. See also: Hebrews 8:10Romans 3:31Matthew 5:17-20But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ See also: Psalms 102:20Jeremiah 50:17Isaiah 51:23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? See also: Isaiah 48:18Acts 3:22-23Deuteronomy 32:29Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. See also: Jeremiah 5:15Judges 2:14Matthew 22:7Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.” See also: Isaiah 57:11Hosea 7:9Malachi 2:2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 42:1
Ver. 1. My servant. Christ, who, according to his humanity, is the servant of God, (Ch.) and Redeemer of others; none else being able to satisfy for themselves. W. Phil. ii. 7. C. --- This passage clearly refers to the Messias, (Chal. Kimchi) who was prefigured by Cyrus. v. 6. C.
Hugo. --- It is quoted by S. Mat. (xii. 18.) who has some variations both from the Heb. and the Sept. (C.) particularly the first part of v. 4. which the Sept.
renders, "He shall shine, and shall not be broken."
↑ 1Isaiah 42:4
Ver. 4. Islands. Sept. and S. Mat. "the Gentiles shall hope in his name." H.
↑ 4Isaiah 42:6
Ver. 6. Gentiles. This was literally verified in Christ. Cyrus is also styled the just, (C. xli. 26.) and gave liberty to many nations.
↑ 6Isaiah 42:7
Ver. 7. House. The Jews out of captivity, prefigured the redemption of mankind.
These miracles proved that Jesus was the Messias. Lu. vii. 22.
↑ 7Isaiah 42:8
Ver. 8. Things. They shall not partake of my divinity. Our Saviour was truly God. Phil. ii. 6.
↑ 8Isaiah 42:9
Ver. 9. Them. The completion of former predictions enforces the belief of those which are yet to come. C.
↑ 9Isaiah 42:10
Ver. 10. All. Lit. "its fullness," (H.) sailors, (C.) and fishes. H. --- He concludes with a canticle.
↑ 10Isaiah 42:11
Ver. 11. Cedar, or the Jews in exile in the desert Arabia. P. cxix. 5. C. --- The people dwell in tents. Roger. ii. 5. --- Petra. A city that gives name to Arabia Petræa. Ch.
↑ 11Isaiah 42:13
Ver. 13. Enemies. The Chaldees, (C.) by the hand of Cyrus.
↑ 13Isaiah 42:15
Ver. 15. Pools. Cyrus deluged the country about Babylon. C. xiii. and xxi. 1. H.
--- The proud and covetous, who expected Christ to give them kingdoms, were deceived. He came to teach humility, and to grant eternal rewards. W.
↑ 15Isaiah 42:16
Ver. 16. Blind captives, or converts to Christianity.
↑ 16Isaiah 42:18
Ver. 18. Deaf Jews, who would not listen to the prophets. v. 19. C.
↑ 18Isaiah 42:19
Ver. 19. Sold. Heb. Cimshullam, (H.) the perfect, or favoured. The Turks call
"believers"
Musselmans. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 42:22
Ver. 22. Men, whom they corrupt by their bad example. H. --- Heb. "their young men are in chains," during the last wars, and the captivity of Juda. C.
↑ 22Isaiah 42:24
Ver. 24. We. Sept. "they have sinned," which seems preferable. H.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses