Isaiah 42:12

Isa 42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

Ver. 12. Let them give glory.] See Isa 42:10.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

glory . . . islands-- (Isa 24:15).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

12. glory and praise: the same words as in Isa_42:8.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Let them give glory ... in the islands - (see the note at Isa 41:1). Let the distant regions praise God.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

In the remotest parts of the world, as well as in Arabia, which was near to them.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Let them give glory unto the Lord... in the islands; i.e. "let those who are in the islands," or the maritime tracts, "give glory to God a repetition of the last clause of ver. 10. The persistency with which the islands, or the maritime tracts of the west, are mentioned (Isa_41:1, 5 42:10, 12 49:1, etc.) may perhaps be accounted for by the fact that Christianity was to obtain its earliest and its most enduring triumphs in these regions.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The islands - In the remotest parts of the world, as well as in Arabia, which was near to them.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

“They shall place (or give) to Jehovah honor, and His praise in the islands they shall show forth (or declare).” Still another mode of saying, ‘the whole world shall praise him.’ The islands are again mentioned, either as one out of several particulars before referred to, or with emphasis, as if he had said, even in the islands, beyond sea, and by implication in the furthest regions. As the verb ‘to give’, in Hebrew usage, has the secondary sense of placing, so the verb to place is occasionally used as an equivalent to that of giving. The translation of the verbs in this verse as imperatives (let them give glory and declare), although substantially correct, is a needless departure from the form of the original, in which the idea of command or exhortation is sufficiently implied though not expressed. The verbs do not agree with the series of nouns in the foregoing verse (desert, towns, etc.), for these could not celebrate Jehovah in the islands. The construction is indefinite, ‘they’, (i.e., men in general), a form of speech of far more frequent occurrence in Hebrew than would be suspected by a reader of the English Bible.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Prophecies of Isaiah (1846–1847; New York: Scribner, 1870–1878) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

General Information:

Yahweh continues speaking.

Let them give glory

Here "them" refers to the people along the coastlands.

Yahweh will go out as a warrior; as a man of war

Yahweh is compared with a warrior who is ready to defeat his people's enemies. (See: Simile and Parallelism)

he will stir up his zeal

Here "zeal" refers to the passion that a warrior experiences when he is about to fight a battle. Yahweh stimulating his zeal is spoken of as if he stirred it up like the wind stirs up waves of water. (See: Metaphor)

translationWords

glory

Yahweh

declare

praise

zeal

power

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They will give glory, etc. They will acknowledge that God has done great things, and will say as follows:

Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.