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. |