Isaiah Matthew
Isaiah 41:1-42:9 and the Gospel of Matthew.
1.1Keep silent, islands;
1.2and let the people renew their strength;
1.3let them come near; then let them speak;
1.4let them come near together to judgment.
Isaiah 41:12.1Who has stirred up the righteous one from the east,
2.2and hurried him on?
2.3The peoples will surrender before him,
2.4and kings will be confounded.
2.5He gave them as the dust to his sword
2.6and as driven stubble to his bow.
3.1He will pursue them, then make peace;
3.2and he will not pass that way on foot.
4.1Who has prepared and done it,
4.2calling the generations from the beginning?
4.3I, the Master, the 1st
4.4and the last; I am he.
Isaiah 41:2-45.1The islands saw it, and were afraid;
5.2and the ends of the land were afraid,
5.3and they drew near and came.
6.1Each helped his neighbor;
6.2and each said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7.1The craftsman encourages the goldsmith,
7.2and he who smooths with the hammer,
7.3him who strikes the anvil saying,
7.4It is ready for the soldering;
7.5and they fasten it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 41:5-78.1But now, Israel, you are my servant,
8.2Jacob, whom I have chosen,
8.3the seed of Abraham my friend,
8.4whom I have strengthened.
9.1I have called you from the ends of the land
9.2and from among the prophets,
9.3and said to you, You are my servant;
9.4I have chosen you, and have not rejected you;
10.1do not fear, for I am with you;
10.2do not be dismayed, for I am your God;
10.3I have strengthened you, and have also helped you,
10.4yes, I will also uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:8-1011.1All those who disgrace you
11.2will be ashamed and confounded;
11.3they will be as nothing;
11.4and those who strive with you will perish.
12.1You will seek those who strive with you,
12.2but you will not find them;
12.3those who war against you
12.4will be as if they were nothing.
13.1For I am the Master, your God,
13.2the strengthener of your right hand.
13.3I have said to you, Do not fear;
13.4I am your helper.
14.1Do not fear, helpless men of Jacob,
14.2remnant of Israel.
14.3I am your helper, says the Master,
14.4and your savior, the holy one of Israel.
15.1I have made you as a new threshing instrument,
15.2a thing which tears and crushes to pieces;
15.3you will thresh the mountains and beat them small,
15.4and will make the hills as chaff.
16.1You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
16.2and the whirlwind will scatter them;
16.3and you will rejoice in the Master
16.4and will glory in the holy one of Israel.
Isaiah 41:11-1617.1The poor and needy seek water
17.2and there is none,
17.3and their tongue is dried with thirst,
17.4I, the Master, will answer them,
17.5I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18.1I will open rivers in the mountains
18.2and fountains in the middle of the valleys;
18.3I will make the wilderness pools of water,
18.4and the dry land springs of water.
19.1I will plant in the wilderness
19.2the cedars, the acacia tree, the myrtle, and the olive tree;
19.3I will set in the plain the cypress
19.4and the pine and the box tree together;
20.1that they may see and know
20.2and consider and understand
20.3that the hand of the Master has done this
20.4and the holy one of Israel has created it.
Isaiah 41:17-2021.1Bring near your cause, says the Master.
21.2Bring near your counsels, says the king of Jacob.
22.1Let them come near and show us
22.2the things that are to come;
22.3show us the former things,
22.4that we may consider them,
22.5and know the latter end of them;
22.6or declare to us the things that are to come.
23.1Show us the wonders that are to come hereafter,
23.2that we may know that you are Gods;
23.3yes, do good, or do evil,
23.4that we may relate it and look at it together.
24.1You are nothing,
24.2and your works are corrupt;
24.3choosing you is an abomination.
Isaiah 41:21-2425.1I have stirred up one from the north, and he will come
25.2from the rising of the sun, and will call on my name;
25.3and the princes will come, and will be trampled down like mortar,
25.4and as the potter treads clay.
26.1Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know,
26.2and before, that we may say, He is righteous.
26.3Yes, there is no one who shows,
26.4yes, there is no one who declares,
26.5yes, there is no one who hears your words.
27.1These things are the chief concern of Zion;
27.2I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good news.
28.1For I looked, but there was no man
28.2who could meditate about these things,
28.3that I might ask him, and that he might give me an answer.
29.1They are all nothing;
29.2their works are vanity;
29.3their images are wind and vanity. Isaiah 41:25-29
1.1Behold, my servant whom I uphold,
1.2my chosen in whom my soul delights.
1.3I have put my Spirit on him
1.4that he will bring forth justice to the peoples.
2.1He will not cry, nor make a sound,
2.2nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3.1A bruised reed he will not break,
3.2and a flickering lamp he will not extinguish;
3.3he will truly bring forth judgment.
4.1He will not fail nor be discouraged
4.2until he has set justice in the land;
4.3and the islands will wait for his law. Q Matthew 12:18-21
Isaiah 42:1-45.1Thus says God,
5.2the Master,
5.3he who created the skies and stretched them out,
5.4he who spread forth the land and all that is in it,
5.5he who gives breath to the people on it,
5.6and spirit to those who walk in it,
6.1I, the Master, have called you in righteousness
6.2and have held your hand
6.3and have strengthened you
6.4and have given you for a contract to the people
6.5and for a light to the peoples;
7.1that you may open the eyes of the blind,
7.2to release prisoners from bondage,
7.3and bring out of the prison house those who sit in darkness.
Isaiah 42:5-78.1I am the Master; that is my name;
8.2and I will not give my glory to another,
8.3nor my praise to graven images.
9.1The former things have come to pass,
9.2and new things I declare;
9.3before they spring forth
9.4I tell you of them. Isaiah 42:8-9 (Isaiah 41:1-42:9 BRB) Isaiah talks about calling the islands together for judgment
and calling the generations forth from the beginning. This matches
Jesus judging Korazin and other cities relative to ancient cities
like Tyre and Sodom.
20Then Joshua began to disgrace the cities in which his many works were done, and which did not repent. He said,
21Woe to you Korazin. Woe to you Beth-Saida. If the works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they might have repented in sackcloth and ashes.
22I say to you, it will be easier for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
Matthew 11:20-2223You, Capernaum, which have exalted yourself up to the skies, will be brought down to the grave. If the works which were done in you had been done in Sodom it would be standing to this day.
24I say to you, it will be easier for the land of Sodom in the judgment day than for you. Matthew 11:23-24 (Matthew 11:20-24 BRB)
Isaiah talks about the sons of Abraham. This matches Jesus'
discussion about sons having a revelation of the father.
25At that time Joshua answered and said, I thank you, my Father, the Master of the skies and land, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the men of understanding and you have revealed them to infants.
26Yes, my Father, for such was your will.
Matthew 11:25-2627Everything has been delivered to me by my Father and no man knows the son except the Father, nor does any man know the Father but the son and to whom the son wishes to reveal him.
Matthew 11:2728Come to me all you who labor and carry burdens and I will give you rest.
29Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am genial and meek in my heart and you will find rest for your souls.
30For my yoke is pleasant and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30 (Matthew 11:25-30 BRB)
Isaiah talks about Jacob being a threshing instrument.
This matches the disciples picking grain in the wheatfields.
1At that time Joshua walked on the sabbath among the grain and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and eat.
2When the Pharisees saw them they said to him, Your disciples are doing something that is not lawful to do on the sabbath.
Matthew 12:1-23He said to them, Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry?
4How he entered into the house of God and ate bread that was on the table of the Master, what was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? H 1 Samuel 21:4
5Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple disregard the sabbath, yet are blameless, H Numbers 28:9
6but, I say to you, one greater than the temple is here.
7If you only knew what it means, I want favor and not sacrifice, Q Hosea 6:6 you would not condemn those who are blameless,
8for the Son of Man is the master of the sabbath. Matthew 12:3-8 (Matthew 12:1-8 BRB) Isaiah says to bring your cause and counsel near, and to
decide between good and evil. This matches Jesus doing good
and the Pharisees doing evil.
9Joshua departed from there and came to their synagogue.
101 man was there whose hand was withered, and they questioned him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:9-1011He said to them, Who is the man among you with 1 sheep, that if it should fall into a pit on the sabbath would not take hold of it and lift it up?
12How much more important is a man than a sheep? A Genesis 37:24 Therefore, it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.
13Then he said to the man, Stretch out your hand, and he stretched out his hand and it was restored like the other.
14The Pharisees went out and they took counsel against him so they might destroy him. Matthew 12:11-14 (Matthew 12:9-14 BRB) Matthew quotes directly from a portion of this passage
in Isaiah.
15Joshua knew it and departed from there, and a great many people followed him and he healed them all.
16He charged them not to say where he was,
17so that might be fulfilled what was said by the hand of the prophet Isaiah, who said:
18.1My servant with whom I am pleased,
18.2my beloved one in whom my soul rejoices,
18.3I will put my Spirit on him,
18.4and he will preach justice to the peoples.
19.1He will not argue nor will he cry aloud,
19.2and no man will hear his voice in the street.
20.1He will not break even a bruised reed,
20.2and he will not extinguish a flickering lamp,
20.3until he brings justice to victory,
21and in his name the peoples will find hope. Q Isaiah 42:1-4 Matthew 12:15-21 (Matthew 12:15-21 BRB) Isaiah says Yahvah gave Jesus for a contract to open the
eyes of the blind and bring out of the prison house those
who sit in darkness. This matches Jesus healing the blind
and mute man and explaining how to plunder the strong man.
22They brought him a lunatic, 1 mute and blind, and he healed him so that the mute and blind man could speak and see.
23All the people were amazed and said, Perhaps this man is the son of David.
Matthew 12:22-23 24When the Pharisees heard it they said, This man does not cast out devils except by Baal Zebub the prince of demons.
Matthew 12:2425Joshua knew their thoughts and said to them, Every kingdom which is divided against itself will be destroyed, A 1 Kings 12:17 and every house or city that is divided against itself will not stand. A Genesis 37:18
26If the accuser casts out the accuser he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
Matthew 12:25-2627If I cast out demons by Baal Zebub by what do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.
28If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come near you.
Matthew 12:27-2829Or, how can a man enter into the house of a mighty man and plunder his goods? But if he 1st bind the mighty man, then his house he may plunder. Matthew 12:29 (Matthew 12:22-29 BRB) Isaiah links all the different antagonists in this set
of stories in Matthew. The cities that ignored Jesus, the
wise and learned who did not have a revelation of the father,
the Pharisees in the wheat fields and synagogues, and the strong
man, are all the same. Jesus judges each of these and vindicates
his followers.
Ryan Eaton 2008-09-24 2013-07-09