This is what the Lord says:

“At just the right time, I will respond to you.
    On the day of salvation I will help you.
I will protect you and give you to the people
    as my covenant with them.
Through you I will re-establish the land of Israel
    and assign it to its own people again.
9 I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’
    and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’ (New Living Translation).’

As we saw yesterday, God is speaking to His Servant, the Messiah, promising to help Him on that day when He establishes the New Covenant through His own blood. How could Jesus go through all the sufferings He had to endure on the Cross – both physically and spiritually? The Book of Hebrews tells us that:

…by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. Hebrews 9:14.

Jesus had God’s ”help”, just as He had promised centuries earlier.

We need to take today’s passage in conjunction with Isaiah 42:5-7. Tom Hale’s comments on that passage should be born in mind as we read this one:

‘In these verses, God addresses His servant directly. He says: ”I will…make you to be a covenant for the people (all people) and a light for the Gentiles (verse 6). Only Jesus could ”be a covenant” uniting God and mankind (1 Timothy 2:5); His own blood sealed that covenant (Mark 14:23-24). Jesus was the fulfillment of God’s covenant with David (see 2 Samuel 7:12-17…); He was also, by His death, the maker of a new covenant, which superseded the old (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Luke 22:20; Hebrews 8:8-13). Applied Old Testament Commentary’, p.1041.