Key Verse Spotlight
Isaiah 42:9 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Isaiah 42:9
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, {and} them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
I {am} the LORD: that {is} my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Sing unto the LORD a new song, {and} his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. {all...: Heb. the fulness thereof}
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up {their voice}, the villages {that} Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
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