Jesaja 42
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Behold My Servant; I will uphold Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights! I have
put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He shall
not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. 3 A
bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He
shall bring forth justice to truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be crushed until He
has set justice in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His Law. 5 So says Jehovah
God, creating the heavens and stretching them out; spreading out the earth and
its offspring, giving breath to the people on it, and spirit to those walking
in it. 6 I, Jehovah, 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 of
the nations; 7 to open blind eyes, to lead out the prisoner from the prison;
those who sit in darkness from the prison. 8 I am Jehovah; that is My name; and
I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to engraved images. 9
Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before
they happen, I cause you to hear. 10 Sing a new song to Jehovah; His praise
from the end of the earth, you who go to sea, and all that is in it; the coasts
and their people. 11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up, the villages
where Kedar lives. Let those dwelling in the rock
sing; let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12 They give glory to
Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands. 13 Jehovah shall go out as a
warrior; and He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war; He shall shout, yea,
roar; He shall act mightily on His enemies. 14 I have forever kept silence; I
have been quiet and refrained Myself; I will groan like a woman in travail; I
will pant and gasp at once. 15 I will make mountains and hills become a waste,
and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will
dry up pools. 16 And I will make the blind go by a way that they did not know.
I will make them go in paths they never knew. I will make darkness go into
light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things to them
and do not forsake them; 17 they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame,
those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.
18 O deaf ones, hear! And O blind ones, look to see! 19 Who is blind but My
servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at
peace, and blind as Jehovah's servant? 20 You see many things, but do not
observe; your ears are open, but not any hears. 21 Jehovah is delighted for His
righteousness' sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable. 22 But it
is a people robbed and spoiled; they shall all be snared in holes; they were
hidden in prison houses. They were for spoil, and no one delivers; a prey, and
no one says, Return! 23 Who among you will give ear to this, will listen and
hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to
the robbers? Did not Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed
not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Law. 25 And He poured on 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 on
his heart.