Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
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Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
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Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
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Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare His praise in the islands.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Isaiah 42:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 117:1-2 Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples! For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!
- Romans 15:9-11 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.” Again he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.” Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Isaiah 24:15-16 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
- Isaiah 42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
- Isaiah 66:18-19 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory. “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
- Revelation 5:9-10 They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
- Revelation 7:9-12 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
- Psalms 96:3-10 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 42:12 Let them give glory unto the LORD,…
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.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In the remotest parts of the world, as well…
In the remotest parts of the world, as well as in Arabia, which was near to them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let them give glory unto the Lord,.... For all…
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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The islands - In the remotest parts of the…
The islands - In the remotest parts of the world, as well as in Arabia, which was near to them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Let them give glory ... in the islands -…
Let them give glory ... in the islands - (see the note at Isa 41:1). Let the distant regions praise God.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain glory . . . islands-- (Isa 24:15).
glory . . . islands-- (Isa 24:15).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. glory and praise: the same words as in…
12. glory and praise: the same words as in Isa_42:8.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let them give glory unto the Lord... in the…
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.
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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)
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