Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 42:10-13
10-13. Sing… a new song On this marvellous unseen religious development which is to fill the whole earth, God calls for jubilation. The “new things” furnish the impulse for a “new song.” This means not only fresh praise but a fresh occasion for it. The whole world of the heathen are summoned to join in it. Standing on some Palestinian eminence, the prophet’s eye sweeps the circle of the earth lands to the far east, and waters to the west and south. Ye that go down to the sea The Red Sea... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 42:9
9. The former things “Former” prophecies, respecting which some suppose earlier predictions are meant. This breaks the continuity of the present course of thought in these chapters, to preserve which the sense must be that the rise of Cyrus is here intended, with the agitation of the nations it is to occasion. The events, though yet future, are prophetically accomplished. As God sees them in historical succession they are essentially past, and the prophet so treats them; since, having once... read more