Isaiah 42 introduces the LORD's Servant, chosen and Spirit-endowed, gentle toward the weak, faithful in establishing justice, and appointed as a light to the nations.

The fulfillment passages listed here (Matt 11:28-30) illuminate the Christian application summarized as "Meek and lowly." The correspondence is meaningful within the New Testament portrait of Jesus, but where the New Testament does not explicitly quote this exact Isaiah verse as fulfilled, it is best described as a theological or messianic correspondence rather than claiming more precision than the biblical writers themselves state.