Isaiah 42

Verses (25)

Isa. 42:1	Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, / My chosen One [in whom] My soul delights; / I have put My Spirit upon Him, / And He will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa. 42:2	He will not cry out, nor lift up [His voice,] / Nor make His voice heard in the street.
Isa. 42:3	A bruised reed He will not break; / And a dimly burning flax He will not extinguish; / He will bring forth justice in truth.
Isa. 42:4	He will not faint, nor will He be discouraged, / Until He has established justice in the earth; / And the coastlands will wait for His instruction.
Isa. 42:5	Thus says God Jehovah, / Who created the heavens and stretched them out, / Who spread forth the earth and what springs up from it, / Who gives breath to the people upon it / And spirit to those who walk on it:
Isa. 42:6	I am Jehovah; I have called You in righteousness; / I have held You by the hand; / I have kept You and I have given You / As a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
Isa. 42:7	To open the eyes of the blind, / To bring the prisoner out from the prison, / Those who dwell in darkness from the prison house.
Isa. 42:8	I am Jehovah, that is My name, / And I will not give My glory to another, / Nor My praise to idols.
Isa. 42:9	Indeed, the former things have come to pass, / And new things I am telling [you;] / Before they spring forth / I will let you hear [them.]
Isa. 42:10	Sing a new song to Jehovah; / [Sing] His praise from the end of the earth; / You who go down to the sea and [all] that fills it, / You coastlands and their inhabitants.
Isa. 42:11	Let the wilderness and its cities, / The villages which Kedar inhabits, lift up [their voices;] / Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; / Let them shout from the tops of the mountains.
Isa. 42:12	Let them give glory to Jehovah, / And declare His praise in the coastlands.
Isa. 42:13	Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man, / Like a man of war He will stir up [His] jealousy; / He will raise a war cry; He will even roar. / He will prevail over His enemies.
Isa. 42:14	For a long time I have been silent; / I have kept still, I have restrained Myself. / [Now] I will cry like a woman in travail; / I will gasp and pant at the same time.
Isa. 42:15	I will lay waste the mountains and hills, / And all of their vegetation I will dry up; / And I will make the rivers into islands; / I will dry up the pools.
Isa. 42:16	I will bring the blind on a way they do not know; / I will guide them in paths they do not know; / I will make the darkness into light before them, / And crooked things straight. / These are the things / I will do for them and will not forsake them.
Isa. 42:17	They who have turned back will be utterly put to shame, / [That is,] those who trust in graven images, / Those who say to molten images, / You are our gods.
Isa. 42:18	You who are deaf, Hear; / And you who are blind, Look, that you may see.
Isa. 42:19	Who is blind except My servant, / And as deaf as My messenger, [whom] I will send? / Who is as blind as the one at peace [with Me,] / And as blind as the servant of Jehovah?
Isa. 42:20	You have seen many things and do not observe [them;] / [His] ears are open, but he does not hear.
Isa. 42:21	Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; / He will magnify the law and make [it] honorable.
Isa. 42:22	But this is a people plundered and spoiled: / All of them are trapped in holes, / And they are hidden in prison houses; / They have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver; / [They have become] spoil, and there is no one to say, Restore [them.]
Isa. 42:23	Who among you will give ear to this? / [Who will] pay attention and listen to the coming things?
Isa. 42:24	Who gave Jacob to the plunderers, / And Israel to the robbers? / Was it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned, / And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, / And whose law they would not obey?
Isa. 42:25	Therefore He poured out upon them the heat of His anger / And the strength of battle; / And it set them on fire round about, yet they did not realize [it;] / And He burned against them and they did not take [it] to heart.