Isaiah Chapter 42 verse 9 Holy Bible
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth will I cause you to hear them.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 9-17. - ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMING DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL FROM BABYLON, AND CALL ON THE NATIONS FOR A SONG OF PRAISE AND JUBILATION. Jehovah is still the speaker. He begins by promising a new revelation (ver. 9). Then, before the revelation is made, he calls upon the nations - especially those in the vicinity of Palestine - to rejoice at what is about to happen (vers. 10-12). After this he proceeds to make the announcement promised in ver. 9 - an announcement that he is about to deliver his people (ver. 16) and to execute vengeance on their enemies (vers. 13-15 and 17). Verse 9. - Behold, the former things are come to pass; i.e. former prophecies have been fulfilled. Israel has been led lute captivity, and in her captivity has suffered grievous things. The reference is, perhaps, especially to such prophecies as Isaiah 39:5-7. And new things do I declare (comp. Isaiah 43:19). The voluntary restoration of a captive people to their own land by the power to which they were subject, and which could compel their services, was emphatically a "new thing" in the world's history. How unwilling the sovereign power was ordinarily to lose such services may be seen by the narrative in Exodus (Exodus 5-14.), and again by the account which Herodotus gives (1:73, 74) of the ground of quarrel between Alyattes and Cyaxares. Before they spring forth; or, shoot forth. The metaphor is one taken from the vegetable world (comp. Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 45:8).
