Isaiah 42:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ He will not fail or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

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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 he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

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 dwell 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 his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

Isaiah 49:1

Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

Isaiah 51:4

“Listen to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go forth from me, and my justice for a light to the peoples.

Isaiah 51:5

My deliverance draws near speedily, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.

Isaiah 55:5

Behold, you shall call nations that you know not, and nations that knew you not shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of 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 sons from far, 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. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning 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

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

Matthew 12:21

and in his name will the Gentiles hope.”

Mark 3:3

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

Romans 16:26

but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, 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—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law.