Isaiah 42
Revised Geneva Translation
42 “Behold, My Servant. I will stay upon Him, My Elect, in Whom My Soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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 the smoking flax He shall not quench. He shall bring forth judgment in truth.
4 “He shall not fail or be discouraged until He has set judgment on the Earth. And the isles shall wait for His Law.”
5 Thus says God, the LORD (He Who created the heavens and spread them out. He Who stretched forth the Earth, and its buds. He Who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it),
6 “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand. And I will keep you, and give you as a covenant to the people, for a light to the Gentiles,
7 “so that you may open the eyes of the blind and bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 “I am the LORD. This is My Name and I will not give My Glory to another, or My Praise to graven images.
9 “Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare. Before they come forth, I tell you of them.”
10 Sing to the LORD a new song, His Praise from the end of the Earth, you who go down to the sea and all that is therein, the isles and its inhabitants!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice (the towns that Kedar inhabits)! Let the inhabitants of the rocks sing! Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12 Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare His Praise on the islands.
13 The LORD shall go forth as a giant. He shall stir up courage like a man of war. He shall shout and cry, shall prevail against His enemies.
14 “I have held My Peace a long time. I have been still, refraining Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in childbirth! I will destroy and devour at once.
15 “I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. And I will make the rivers islands. And I will dry up the pools.
16 “And I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know, lead them by paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.
17 “They shall be repulsed and greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and say to the molten images, ‘You are our gods.’
18 “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, so that you may see.
19 “Who is blind but My servant or deaf as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as the perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant,
20 “seeing many things yet you do not keep them, opening the ears yet he does not hear?”
21 The LORD is willing for His righteousness sake, so that He may magnify the Law and exalt it.
22 But this people is robbed and spoiled, and shall all be trapped in caverns. And they shall be hidden in prison houses. They shall be for prey, and no one shall deliver. A spoil, and no one shall say, “Restore.”
23 Who among you shall give ear to this, listen, and hear for a time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD, because we have sinned against Him? For they would not walk in His ways, nor be obedient to His Law.
25 Therefore, He has poured His fierce wrath upon him, and the strength of battle. And it set him on fire all around, and he did not know it. It burned him up, yet he did not consider it.
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