Isaiah 42:12
in Isaiah 42Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.
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ASV
Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands.
KJV
Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.
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This verse in Isaiah 42
Commentary
7 notes on this verseSecond, he foretells the spreading of divine praise: they shall give glory to the Lord, in others, not only in themselves, below: I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles (Isa 66:19). Mystically, all this refers to the conversion of the …
This site's exposition
Sing to the LORD a new song
on Isaiah 42:10-12
The prediction is answered with worship, Sing to the LORD a new song. The call widens to the desert and its cities and the villages of Kedar. The new song follows the new things of verse 9, a fresh act of God answered by a fresh song.
This site's exposition
declare His praise in the islands
The call ends where verse 10 began, in the islands, so the praise runs from the far coasts to the desert of Kedar and back. Gill thinks of the islands of Greece and the Aegean. Aquinas reads the glory as carried to others and joins it to Isaiah 66:19.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verses 11-12) Let the desert and its cities lift up: in the houses shall Cedar dwell, praise you inhabitants of Petra, they shall shout from the top of the mountains. They shall give glory to the Lord, and his praise in the islands they shall declare. LXX: Let the wilderness lift up its voice and its towns, the settlements where Kedar dwells. The inhabitants of the rocks will rejoice, they will shout from the mountaintops. They will give glory to God; they will declare his virtues in the islands.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Let them give glory unto the Lord,.... For all the great and good things he has done for them, in sending his Gospel to them, calling them by his grace, enlightening their minds, and revealing his Son in them, and making them partakers of the blessings of his grace, and entitling them to eternal glory and happiness: and declare his praise in the islands; as on the western continent, and the isles of it; so on the eastern continent, and the islands of it, the islands of Greece, the islands in the Aegean sea.
It comes all to one whether we make these verses (as some do) the song itself that is to be sung by the Gentile world or a prophecy of what God will do to make way for the singing of that song, that evangelical new song. He will appear in his power and glory more than ever.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Let them give glory ... in the islands - (see the note at Isa 41:1). Let the distant regions praise God.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
The desert and its cities shall raise [their voice] their voice in song.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָשִׂ֥ימוּ | yasimu | let them give | H7760 → | 584 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֖ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| כָּב֑וֹד | kavod | glory | H3519 → | 200 times |
| וּתְהִלָּת֖וֹ | utehilato | and praise his | H8416 → | 56 times |
| בָּאִיִּ֥ים | baiyim | in the islands | H339 → | 36 times |
| יַגִּֽידוּ׃ | yagidu | let them declare | H5046 → | 370 times |
יָשִׂ֥ימוּlet them give
yasimuH7760 →584 times
לַֽיהוָ֖הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
כָּב֑וֹדglory
kavodH3519 →200 times
וּתְהִלָּת֖וֹand praise his
utehilatoH8416 →56 times
בָּאִיִּ֥יםin the islands
baiyimH339 →36 times
יַגִּֽידוּ׃let them declare
yagiduH5046 →370 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
it leads to
- Psalms 86:9
All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Revelation 7:9–12
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes…
- Psalms 2:8
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- Isaiah 49:6
He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light…
- Psalms 86:9
Through
Isaiah 42:4He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 55:5
Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory…
- Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Isaiah 53:2–12
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
- Isaiah 55:5
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.