and smooth out the road ahead of them. Even foolish people that travel along the Holy Road will not lose their way. Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place; as for the former events, declare what they were, that we may consider them and know their outcome. If you right click on the picture you can download it to your computer! The Holy Road. Elect— Chosen by me to this great work. Isaiah 42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. Obviously, a blind man will have trouble being a good servant. The Targum interprets this of the people of Israel, thus. And not forsake them - (See Isaiah 41:10, note, Isaiah 41:13, note). Barnes's Isaiah 42:16 Bible Commentary And I will lead the blind - Having said in the previous verses what he would do to his enemies, God now speaks of his people. Isaiah 42:17. Isaiah 42:16, NLT: "I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. Take The Rosary: History, Mystery, and Meaning Class Now . Isaiah 42:16 Sermons: I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. The Servant is God’s agent to do God’s work in the world. Now, He speaks to the blind that He calls My servant, the deaf whom He calls My messenger. 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. • This song, the second song (49:1-6), further defines the Servant’s mission. These concepts are the connective tissue between today’s Old Testament lesson from Isaiah 42 and the assigned Gospel lesson from Matthew 3. Every morning, we have a regular dog routine at our house. Isaiah 42:16 Context. The Targum interprets this of the people of Israel, thus, ``I will lead the house of Israel, which are like to the blind, in a … b. The subject will appear again in Isaiah 42:16-19 and 43:8 and 44:18. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. The alarm rings early and Nash, our Labrador retriever, goes downstairs with Peter for breakfast and a quick run and bark outside. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. And crooked things straight - Things which seem to be adverse and opposing - the persecutions and trials which the people of God would be called to endure. • The first song (42:1-4) tells of the call of the Servant to “bring justice to the nations” (42:1). 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. What I may call the imposing introduction Isaiah 42:10-12 having prepared us for something great, the last clause of Isaiah 42:16 in turn testifies to the greatness and marvel of the things that have been held in prospect from Isaiah 42:13 on. Isaiah 42:15. Isaiah 42:16. When the prophet Isaiah uses such language as this, ‘I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not,’ he just illustrates the language of Paul, ‘I am what I am by the grace of God that is in me.’ —I will do it. 16 This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 17 who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: God will put an end to war. v8 A main road will be there. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. Here it seems to be the emblem of adverse and opposing events; of calamities, persecutions, and trials. Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. of