42:1 "Behold My Servant, Whom I uphold; My Elect, in Whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth justice to the Gentiles. |
42:2 He shall not cry out, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. |
42:3 A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; in truth He shall bring forth justice. |
42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for His law." |
42:5 Thus says the LORD God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading forth the earth and its offspring; He Who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it. |
42:6 "I the LORD have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light to the Gentiles; |
42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house. |
42:8 I am the LORD; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images. |
42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass. And new things I declare; before they happen, I tell you of them." |
42:10 Sing to the LORD a new song; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and its fullness; the isles and their people. |
42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the dwellers of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops. |
42:12 Give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the isles. |
42:13 The LORD shall go forth as a warrior, He stirs up zeal like a man of war; He shouts, yea, roars; He overcomes His enemies. |
42:14 "I have held My peace for a long time; I have been still and refrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in pangs of labor, I will pant and gasp at once. |
42:15 I will make waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. |
42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and rugged places plain. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them. |
42:17 They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, 'You are our gods.' |
42:18 Hear, you deaf ones; and you blind ones look to see. |
42:19 Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? |
42:20 You see many things, but do not pay attention. Your ears are open, but no one hears." |
42:21 The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make it glorious. |
42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for a prey, and none delivers them; for a spoil, and none says, "Give back." |
42:23 Who among you will hear this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? |
42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not the LORD, against Whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His law. |
42:25 Therefore He has poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it to heart. |