イザヤ記 42:4

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4 彼は衰えず、落胆せず、ついに道を地に確立する。海沿いの国々はその教を待ち望む。

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shall not: Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 49:5-10, Isaiah 52:13-15, Isaiah 53:2-12, John 17:4, John 17:5, Hebrews 12:2-4, 1 Peter 2:22-24

discouraged: Heb. broken

and the isles: Isaiah 42:12, Isaiah 2:2-4, Isaiah 11:9-12, Isaiah 24:15, Isaiah 24:16, Isaiah 41:5, Isaiah 55:5, Isaiah 60:9, Isaiah 66:19, Genesis 49:10, Psalms 22:27, Psalms 72:8-11, Psalms 98:2, Psalms 98:3, Micah 4:1-3, Zechariah 2:11, Romans 16:26, 1 Corinthians 9:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:5 - isles 2 Chronicles 20:12 - wilt Psalms 97:1 - let the multitude of isles Psalms 99:4 - thou dost Psalms 110:6 - judge Psalms 119:51 - yet have Psalms 119:157 - yet do I Ecclesiastes 9:17 - General Isaiah 11:11 - the islands Isaiah 32:16 - General Isaiah 42:10 - the isles Isaiah 51:5 - the isles Jeremiah 31:10 - declare Zephaniah 2:11 - the isles Zephaniah 3:5 - bring Matthew 12:20 - till Mark 3:3 - he saith Luke 6:8 - Rise John 7:26 - he speaketh 2 Corinthians 10:1 - by

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall not fail,.... For want of strength to go through the work of redemption: or, "grow dim" i and dark, as a lamp for want of oil, or as the wick of a candle ready to go out. Hence the Septuagint version, "he shall shine k"; in the glory of his person, as the Son of God; in the fulness of his grace, as Mediator, which shall never fail; and in the hearts of his people by his Spirit; and in his Gospel published to the world:

nor be discouraged; at the number, power, and menaces of his enemies, he had to grapple with, sin, Satan, the world, and death: or,

nor be broken l; with the weight of all the sins of his people upon him; and with a sense of divine wrath; and with the whole punishment due unto them, inflicted on him, enough to have broke the backs and spirits of men and angels; but he stood up under the mighty load, and did not sink beneath it, but endured all with an invincible courage and resolution of mind:

till he have set judgment in the earth; fully satisfied the justice of God for the sins of his people, and performed the work of their redemption in righteousness; and then he sent and settled his Gospel in the world, proclaiming the same; and fixed a set of Gospel ordinances to continue the remembrance of it, till his second coming. Maimonides m produces this passage to prove that the Messiah shall die, because it is said, "he shall not fail--till", c. but this does not signify that he should fail afterwards, but that he should continue always:

and the isles shall wait for his law; his doctrine or Gospel, the law or doctrine of faith, particularly that of justification by his righteousness, with every other; this the inhabitants of the islands, or distant countries, the Gentiles, should be desirous of hearing, readily embrace and receive, and trust in Christ, made known to them in it. The Septuagint version is, "and in his name shall the Gentiles trust"; and so in Matthew 12:20.

i לא יכהה, "non caligabit", Pagninus, Montanus. k αναλαμψει, Sept. l ירוצ, "nec fraugetur", Paguinus, Montanus. m Porta Mosis, p. 160.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall not fail - He shall not be weak, feeble, or disheartened. However much there may be that shall tend to discourage, yet his purpose is fixed, and he will pursue it with steadiness and ardor until the great work shall be fully accomplished. There may be an allusion in the Hebrew word here (יכהה yı̂kheh) to that which is applied to the flax (כהה kēhâh); and the idea may be that he shall not become in his purposes like the smoking, flickering, dying flame of a lamp. There shall never be any indication, even amidst all embarrassments, that it is his intention to abandon his plan of extending the true religion through all the world. Such also should be the fixed and determined purposes of his people. Their zeal should never fail; their ardor should never grow languid.

Nor be discouraged - Margin, ‘Broken.’ The Hebrew word ירוּץ yârûts may be derived either from רצץ râtsats, to break, to break in pieces; or from רוץ rûts to run, to move hastily, to rush upon any one. Our translators have adopted the former. Gesenius also supposes that this is the true interpretation of the word, and that it means, that he would not be broken, that is, checked in his zeal, or discouraged by any opposition. The latter interpretation is preferred by Vitringa, Rosenmuller, Hengstenberg, and others. The Chaldee renders it, ‘Shall not labor,’ that is, shall not be fatigued, or discouraged. The Septuagint renders it, ‘He shall shine out, and not be broken.’ The connection seems to require the sense which our translators have given to it, and according to this, the meaning is, ‘he shall not become broken in spirit, or discouraged; he shall persevere amidst all opposition and embarrassment, until he shall accomplish his purposes.’ We have a similar phraseology when we speak of a man’s being heart-broken.

Till he have set judgment - Until he has secured the prevalence of the true religion in all the world.

And the isles - Distant nations (see the note at Isaiah 41:1); the pagan nations. The expression is equivalent to saying that the Gentiles would be desirous of receiving the religion of the Messiah, and would wait for it (see the notes at Isaiah 2:3).

Shall wait - They shall be dissatisfied with their own religions, and see that their idol-gods are unable to aid them; and they shall be in a posture of waiting for some new religion that shall meet their needs. It cannot mean that they shall wait for it, in the sense of their already having a knowledge of it, but that their being sensible that their own religions cannot save them may be represented as a condition of waiting for some better system. It has been true, as in the Sandwich Islands, that the pagan have been so dissatisfied with their own religion as to east away their idols, and to be without any religion, and thus to be in a waiting posture for some new and better system. And it may be true yet that the pagan shall become extensively dissatisfied with their idolatry; that they shall be convinced that some better system is necessary, and that they may thus be prepared to welcome the gospel when it shall be proposed to them. It may be that in this manner God intends to remove the now apparently insuperable obstacles to the spread of the gospel in the pagan world. The Septuagint renders this, ‘And in his name shall the Gentiles trust,’ which form has been retained by Matthew Matthew 12:21.

His law - His commands, the institutions of his religion. The word ‘law’ is often used in the Scriptures to denote the whole of religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 42:4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged - "His force shall not be abated nor broken"] Rabbi Meir ita citat locum istum, ut post ירוץ yaruts, addat כוחו cocho, robur ejus, quod hodie non comparet in textu Hebraeo, sed addendum videtur, ut sensus fiat planior.

"Rabbi Meir cites this passage so as to add after ירוץ yarats כוחו cocho, his force, which word is not found in the present Hebrew text, but seems necessary to be added to make the sense more distinct." Capell. Crit. Sac. p. 382. For which reason I had added it in the translation, before I observed this remark of Capellus. - L.