Isaiah 42:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice in the earth, and the coastlands wait for his teaching.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He will not fail or become weak or be crushed and discouraged till He has established justice in the earth; and the islands and coastal regions shall wait hopefully for Him and expect His direction and law. [Rom. 8:22-25.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

Common English Bible

⁴ He won’t be extinguished or broken until he has established justice in the land. The coastlands await his teaching.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He will not be saddened or troubled, until he establishes judgment on earth. And the islands will await his law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He shall not be sad nor troublesome till he set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:4 Cross References

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him, and the obedience of the peoples is his.

Psalm 22:27

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Isaiah 40:28

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Isaiah 41:5

The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

Isaiah 42:12

Let them give glory to the Lord and declare his praise in the coastlands.

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness, to magnify his teaching and make it glorious.

Isaiah 49:1

Listen to me, O coastlands; pay attention, you peoples from far away! The Lord called me before I was born; while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.

Isaiah 51:4

Listen to me, my people, and give heed to me, my nation, for a teaching will go out from me and my justice for a light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51:5

I will bring near my deliverance swiftly; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.

Isaiah 55:5

Now you shall call nations that you do not know, and nations that do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.

Isaiah 60:9

For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from far away, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

Isaiah 66:19

and I will set a sign among them. From them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, to Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands far away that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Isaiah 9:7

Great will be his authority, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Zechariah 2:11

Many nations shall join themselves to the Lord on that day and shall be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

Matthew 12:21

And in his name the gentiles will hope.”

Mark 3:3

And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.”

Romans 16:26

but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not outside God’s law but am within Christ’s law) so that I might gain those outside the law.