Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 42:3

"A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth." — Isaiah 42:3 (ASV)

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

How exactly these words describe the Lord Jesus! He was so gentle that he did not break or break off the bruised reeds. We read that he did not answer the Scribes and Pharisees. They were so powerless—such bruised reeds in his esteem, such worthless, smoking flaxes—that he let them alone until eventually he came to bring forth judgment unto victory. And now the weak, the feeble, the gentle, the poor in spirit, will never find Christ deal harshly with them. The bruised reed he will not break: the smoking flax he will not quench.