Isaías 42:5

5 Así dice Dios el SEÑOR, que crea los cielos y los extiende, que afirma la tierra y lo que de ella brota, que da aliento al pueblo que hay en ella, y espíritu a los que por ella andan:

Isaías 42:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 42:5

Thus saith God the Lord
The God of the world, as the Targum. This, with what follows, is a preface to the call of Christ, to the great work of redemption; setting forth the greatness of God as a Creator, that calls him to it, and thereby encouraging him as man and Mediator in it, as well as the faith of his people to regard him as their Saviour and Redeemer, and believe that this work he was called unto should be performed by him; for what is it that God, the Creator of all things, cannot do? he that created the heavens, and stretched them out:
he first made them out of nothing, and stretched out the firmament of them as a curtain and canopy over the earth, and them as a tent for himself to dwell in, ( Isaiah 40:22 ) : he that spread forth the earth;
into the length and breadth it has, for man and beast to dwell on it: and that which cometh out of it;
grass, herbs, and trees, which he has spread all over it: he that giveth breath unto the people upon it;
as he did to man at first, he breathed into him the breath of life, and as he gives to all since, ( Genesis 2:7 ) ( Acts 17:25 ) : and spirit to them that walk therein;
not only breath in common with the beasts of the field, and other creatures, but a rational spirit, or a reasonable soul, an intellective faculty, a capacity of understanding things, as brutes have not. Jarchi interprets this of the Holy Spirit, which God gives to them that walk before him.

Isaías 42:5 In-Context

3 No quebrará la caña cascada, ni apagará el pabilo mortecino; con fidelidad traerá justicia.

4 No se desanimará ni desfallecerá hasta que haya establecido en la tierra la justicia, y su ley esperarán las costas.

5 Así dice Dios el SEÑOR, que crea los cielos y los extiende, que afirma la tierra y lo que de ella brota, que da aliento al pueblo que hay en ella, y espíritu a los que por ella andan:

6 Yo soy el SEÑOR, en justicia te he llamado; te sostendré por la mano y por ti velaré, y te pondré como pacto para el pueblo, como luz para las naciones,

7 para que abras los ojos a los ciegos, para que saques de la cárcel a los presos, y de la prisión a los que moran en tinieblas.