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It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. <a href="/nlt/isaiah/42.htm">New Living Translation</a> Therefore, he poured out his fury on them and destroyed them in battle. They were enveloped in flames, but they still refused to understand. They were consumed by fire, but they did not learn their lesson. <a href="/esv/isaiah/42.htm">English Standard Version</a> So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/42.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/42.htm">King James Bible</a> Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/42.htm">New King James Version</a> Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/42.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/42.htm">NASB 1995</a> So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/42.htm">NASB 1977 </a> So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/42.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not know it; And it burned him, but he did not set it upon his heart. <a href="/amp/isaiah/42.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Therefore He poured out on Israel the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And engulfed him in fire, Yet he did not recognize [the lesson of repentance which the Assyrian conquest was intended to teach]; It burned him, but he did not take it to heart. <a href="/csb/isaiah/42.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> So he poured out his furious anger and the power of war on Jacob. It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it; it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/42.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> So He poured out on Jacob His furious anger and the power of war. It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it; it burned him, but he paid no attention. <a href="/asv/isaiah/42.htm">American Standard Version</a> Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. <a href="/cev/isaiah/42.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> He was furious with us and punished our nation with the fires of war. Still we paid no attention. We didn't even care when we were surrounded and scorched by flames. <a href="/erv/isaiah/42.htm">English Revised Version</a> Therefore he poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/42.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> So he poured out his burning anger and the horrors of war on them. It engulfed them in flames, but they did not understand. It burned them, but they did not take it to heart. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/42.htm">Good News Translation</a> So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel, but we never knew what was happening; we learned nothing at all from it. <a href="/isv/isaiah/42.htm">International Standard Version</a> so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart." <a href="/msb/isaiah/42.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. <a href="/net/isaiah/42.htm">NET Bible</a> So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/42.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he did not know; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart." <a href="/wbt/isaiah/42.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. <a href="/web/isaiah/42.htm">World English Bible</a> Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/42.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And He pours fury on him, "" His anger, and the strength of battle, "" And it sets him on fire all around, "" And he has not known, "" And it burns against him, and he does not lay it to heart! <a href="/ylt/isaiah/42.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart! <a href="/slt/isaiah/42.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And be will pour upon him the heat of his anger, and the strength of war: and it will burn him from round about, and he will not know; and it will feed upon him and he will not lay to the heart.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/42.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/42.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And so, he poured out over him the indignation of his fury and a strong battle. And he burned him all around, and he did not realize it. And he set him on fire, and he did not understand it. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/42.htm">New American Bible</a> So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and the fury of battle; It blazed all around them, yet they did not realize, it burned them, but they did not take it to heart. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/42.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fury of war; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/42.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore he has poured upon them the fury of his anger and the fierceness of battle; and it has set them on fire round about, yet they knew it not; and it burned them, yet they laid it not to heart. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/42.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> He poured upon them the heat of his wrath and the power of war burned them from their surroundings, and they did not know, and fire burned in them and they did not bring it to their heart <div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/42.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Therefore He poured upon him the fury of His anger, And the strength of battle; And it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not, And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. <a href="/sep/isaiah/42.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew it, neither did they lay it to heart. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/42-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=9353" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/42.htm">Israel is Deaf and Blind</a> …24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law. 25<a href="/hebrew/8210.htm" title="8210: way·yiš·pōḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To pour out, pour. A primitive root; to spill forth; also to expend; intensively, to sprawl out.">So He poured out</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·lāw (Prep:: 3ms) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on them</a> <a href="/hebrew/2534.htm" title="2534: ḥê·māh (N-fs) -- Heat, rage. Or chemac; from yacham; heat; figuratively, anger, poison.">His furious</a> <a href="/hebrew/639.htm" title="639: ’ap·pōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A nostril, nose, face, anger. From 'anaph; properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also ire.">anger</a> <a href="/hebrew/5807.htm" title="5807: we·‘ĕ·zūz (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Strength, might, fierceness. From azaz; forcibleness.">and the fierceness</a> <a href="/hebrew/4421.htm" title="4421: mil·ḥā·māh (N-fs) -- A battle, war. From lacham; a battle; generally, war.">of battle.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5439.htm" title="5439: mis·sā·ḇîḇ (Prep-m:: Adv) -- Circuit, round about. Or cbiybah; from cabab; a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly around.">It enveloped them</a> <a href="/hebrew/3857.htm" title="3857: wat·tə·la·hă·ṭê·hū (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3fs:: 3ms) -- To blaze up, flame. A primitive root; properly, to lick, i.e. to blaze.">in flames,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">but they did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: yā·ḏā‘ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">understand;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1197.htm" title="1197: wat·tiḇ·‘ar- (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To kindle, consume, to be, brutish. A primitive root; to kindle, i.e. Consume; also to be(-come) brutish.">it consumed them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/bōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">but they did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: yā·śîm (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">take</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">it to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lêḇ (N-ms) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">heart.</a> <div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-22.htm">Deuteronomy 32:22-25</a> For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains. / I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them. / They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust. ... <a href="/2_kings/22-13.htm">2 Kings 22:13-17</a> “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.” / So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District. / And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you ... <a href="/jeremiah/7-20.htm">Jeremiah 7:20</a> Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. <a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm">Jeremiah 21:12-14</a> O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds. / Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?” / I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’” <a href="/lamentations/2-3.htm">Lamentations 2:3-4</a> In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it. / He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion. <a href="/ezekiel/22-31.htm">Ezekiel 22:31</a> So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.” <a href="/amos/2-4.htm">Amos 2:4-5</a> This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked. / So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.” <a href="/zephaniah/1-18.htm">Zephaniah 1:18</a> Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth. <a href="/romans/1-18.htm">Romans 1:18</a> The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. <a href="/romans/2-5.htm">Romans 2:5</a> But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. <a href="/romans/5-9.htm">Romans 5:9</a> Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! <a href="/ephesians/5-6.htm">Ephesians 5:6</a> Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. <a href="/colossians/3-6.htm">Colossians 3:6</a> Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. <a href="/1_thessalonians/1-10.htm">1 Thessalonians 1:10</a> and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath. <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-9.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:9</a> For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.he hath poured<a href="/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15</a> And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:<a href="/deuteronomy/32-22.htm">Deuteronomy 32:22</a> For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.<a href="/psalms/79-5.htm">Psalm 79:5,6</a> How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? … and it hath<a href="/2_kings/25-9.htm">2 Kings 25:9</a> And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.he knew<a href="/isaiah/9-13.htm">Isaiah 9:13</a> For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.<a href="/jeremiah/5-3.htm">Jeremiah 5:3</a> O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.<a href="/hosea/7-9.htm">Hosea 7:9</a> Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.yet he laid<a href="/isaiah/57-11.htm">Isaiah 57:11</a> And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?<a href="/malachi/2-2.htm">Malachi 2:2</a> If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Aflame</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-5.htm">Battle</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Burneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/luke/9-34.htm">Enveloped</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Fierceness</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-30.htm">Flame</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm">Fury</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-22.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-30.htm">Heat</a> <a href="/isaiah/39-6.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm">Paid</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Poured</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-28.htm">Poureth</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-20.htm">Recognize</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm">Round</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-10.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-20.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-2.htm">Violence</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm">War</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_corinthians/7-9.htm">Aflame</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-21.htm">Battle</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-2.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-16.htm">Burneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-5.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm">Enveloped</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-15.htm">Fierceness</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-2.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-2.htm">Flame</a> <a href="/isaiah/51-13.htm">Fury</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-8.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-10.htm">Heat</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-28.htm">Laid</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-18.htm">Paid</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-10.htm">Poured</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-7.htm">Poureth</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-12.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-9.htm">Recognize</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-18.htm">Round</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-12.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-10.htm">Understand</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-9.htm">Violence</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-5.htm">War</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-9.htm">Wrath</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 42</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/42-1.htm">The office of Christ, graced with meekness and constancy.</a> 5. <a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm">God's promise unto him.</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm">An exhortation to praise God for his Gospel</a> 13. <a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm">God will manifest himself, and check idolatry</a> 18. <a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm">He reproves the people of incredulity.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/42.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/42.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>So He poured out on them His furious anger This phrase reflects God's righteous judgment upon His people due to their persistent disobedience and idolatry. The imagery of pouring out suggests an overwhelming and inescapable force, akin to a deluge. In the context of Isaiah, this judgment is often associated with the Babylonian exile, where God allowed foreign nations to conquer Israel as a consequence of their sins. This aligns with the covenantal curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where disobedience leads to divine wrath. Theologically, it underscores God's holiness and justice, reminding believers of the seriousness of sin.and the fierceness of battle. The fierceness of battle signifies the intensity and destructiveness of the judgment that came upon Israel. Historically, this can be linked to the invasions by Assyrian and Babylonian forces, which were instruments of God's judgment. The battles were not just physical but also spiritual, as they represented a divine chastisement meant to bring the people back to repentance. This phrase also echoes the warnings given by prophets like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, who foretold the coming destruction due to the nation's unfaithfulness.It enveloped them in flames, The imagery of flames suggests total destruction and purification. Fire in the Bible often symbolizes God's presence and judgment, as seen in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) and the refining process described in <a href="/malachi/3-2.htm">Malachi 3:2-3</a>. The enveloping flames indicate that the judgment was all-consuming, leaving no part of the nation untouched. This can be seen as a type of Christ's ultimate judgment and purification of the world, where He will separate the righteous from the wicked (<a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a>).but they did not understand; Despite the clear signs of God's judgment, the people failed to comprehend the reason behind their suffering. This lack of understanding is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, where Israel is often described as having eyes but not seeing, and ears but not hearing (<a href="/isaiah/6-9.htm">Isaiah 6:9-10</a>). It highlights the spiritual blindness and hardness of heart that prevented them from recognizing their need for repentance. This serves as a warning to believers today to remain spiritually vigilant and responsive to God's discipline.it consumed them, The consumption here indicates the thoroughness of the judgment. Historically, the Babylonian conquest led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, symbolizing the complete devastation of the nation. This consumption can also be seen as a metaphor for the spiritual decay that results from persistent sin. In a broader biblical context, it points to the ultimate judgment that awaits those who reject God, as described in <a href="/revelation/20-15.htm">Revelation 20:15</a>.but they did not take it to heart. This phrase underscores the tragic response of the people to God's discipline. Despite experiencing the consequences of their actions, they failed to internalize the lesson and turn back to God. This reflects a deeper issue of spiritual apathy and rebellion. In the New Testament, Jesus often rebukes the Pharisees for a similar hardness of heart (<a href="/mark/3-5.htm">Mark 3:5</a>). For believers, this serves as a call to genuine repentance and transformation, emphasizing the importance of not just hearing God's word but allowing it to change one's heart and actions.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (Yahweh)</a> The sovereign Lord who is expressing His righteous anger due to the disobedience and idolatry of His people. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The nation chosen by God, who is the recipient of His anger due to their persistent rebellion and failure to heed His warnings. 3. <a href="/topical/p/prophet_isaiah.htm">Prophet Isaiah</a> The messenger of God who delivers this message of warning and judgment to the people of Israel. 4. <a href="/topical/f/furious_anger_and_fierceness_of_battle.htm">Furious Anger and Fierceness of Battle</a> Represents God's judgment and the consequences of Israel's disobedience, often manifested through military defeat and suffering. 5. <a href="/topical/f/flames_and_consumption.htm">Flames and Consumption</a> Symbolic of the destruction and purification process that Israel undergoes due to their failure to repent and return to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_god's_righteous_anger.htm">Understanding God's Righteous Anger</a> God's anger is not arbitrary but is a response to persistent sin and rebellion. It serves as a call to repentance and a return to righteousness. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> Disobedience to God leads to severe consequences, as seen in the historical context of Israel. This serves as a warning for believers today to remain faithful. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_heeding_god's_warnings.htm">The Importance of Heeding God's Warnings</a> The Israelites' failure to understand and take God's warnings to heart resulted in their suffering. Believers are encouraged to be attentive to God's guidance and correction. <a href="/topical/g/god's_discipline_as_a_form_of_love.htm">God's Discipline as a Form of Love</a> Just as a loving parent disciplines a child, God's discipline is meant to correct and guide His people back to Him. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_on_personal_spiritual_state.htm">Reflecting on Personal Spiritual State</a> Believers should regularly examine their lives to ensure they are not ignoring God's voice or living in ways that provoke His righteous anger.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_42.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 42</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_anger_at_god.htm">What does the Bible say about being angry with God?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_prayer_work.htm">Why do you hypocritically ignore justice, mercy, and faithfulness?</a> <a href="/q/how_can_a_loving_deity_enact_vengeance.htm">Isaiah 66:15-16: How can a loving deity be reconciled with the depiction of fiery vengeance and widespread destruction?</a> <a href="/q/did_edom_face_ezekiel_25_12-14's_judgment.htm">In Ezekiel 25:12-14, is there verifiable evidence that Edom suffered the precise judgment described, or might this be an unfulfilled prophecy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/42.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) The fury of his anger.--Better, the burning heat of His wrath, and the violence of war. Historically, the words seem to find a better fulfiment in the "wars and rumours of wars" (<a href="/matthew/24-6.htm" title="And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.">Matthew 24:6</a>) than in the long equable continuance of the exile.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/42.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 25. - Therefore he hath poured upon him... the strength of battle; i.e. for this cause, on account of their iniquities, did God bring upon his people the scourge of foreign war, and allow the Babylonians to waste Judaea, to destroy Jerusalem, and to lead into captivity the entire nation (comp. <a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm">2 Chronicles 36:14-17</a>). It hath set him on fire; rather, it (i.e. the war)set him on fire. The reference is, perhaps, especially to the burning of Jerusalem by Nebuzar-adan (<a href="/2_kings/25-9.htm">2 Kings 25:9</a>); but the phrase will cover also the general devastation of the land both before and after this event (<a href="/jeremiah/39.htm">Jeremiah 39-42</a>.), He knew not; rather, he took no notice; he did not change his ways on account of the chastisement. The prophet's view is that Israel, as a whole, was not greatly bettered by the Captivity, at any rate up to the time which he takes for his standpoint, and at which he supposes him. self to be addressing them. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/42-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>So He poured out וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֤ךְ (way·yiš·pōḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8210.htm">Strong's 8210: </a> To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out on them עָלָיו֙ (‘ā·lāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against His furious חֵמָ֣ה (ḥê·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2534.htm">Strong's 2534: </a> Heat, anger, poison anger אַפּ֔וֹ (’ap·pōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_639.htm">Strong's 639: </a> The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire and the fierceness וֶעֱז֖וּז (we·‘ĕ·zūz) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5807.htm">Strong's 5807: </a> Strength, might, fierceness of battle. מִלְחָמָ֑ה (mil·ḥā·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4421.htm">Strong's 4421: </a> A battle, war It enveloped them מִסָּבִיב֙ (mis·sā·ḇîḇ) Preposition-m | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5439.htm">Strong's 5439: </a> A circle, neighbour, environs, around in flames, וַתְּלַהֲטֵ֤הוּ (wat·tə·la·hă·ṭê·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3857.htm">Strong's 3857: </a> To blaze up, flame but they did not וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no understand; יָדָ֔ע (yā·ḏā‘) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> To know it consumed them, וַתִּבְעַר־ (wat·tiḇ·‘ar-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1197.htm">Strong's 1197: </a> To kindle, consume, to be, brutish but they did not וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no take יָשִׂ֥ים (yā·śîm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set it to עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against heart. לֵֽב׃ (lêḇ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/42-25.htm">Isaiah 42:25 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 42:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 42:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/43-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 43:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 43:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>