Isaías 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 nations.

² He shall not cry out, 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 unto truth.

⁴ He shall not fail nor be discouraged, until He has established justice on the earth; and the islands shall wait for His Law.

⁵ Thus says Jehovah the Mighty God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it.

⁶ I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You as a covenant to the people, as a Light to the nations;

⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

⁸ I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth, I proclaim them to you.

¹⁰ Sing to Jehovah a new song; His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it; the coastlands and its inhabitants.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.

¹² Give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands.

¹³ Jehovah goes forth as a mighty man, He stirs up zeal like a man of war; He shouts, yea, roars; He shows Himself mighty against His enemies.

¹⁴ I have continually kept silent; I have been still and refrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in labor; I will pant and gasp at once.

¹⁵ I will make waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

¹⁶ And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness into light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things for them, and not forsake them.

¹⁷ They have been turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the molten images, You are our gods.

¹⁸ Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

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 Jehovah’s servant?

²⁰ You see many things, but do not observe; opening the ears, but no one hears.

²¹ Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.

²² But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They are as prey, and no one delivers them; spoils, and no one says, Give it back!

²³ Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

²⁴ Who gave Jacob for a spoils, and Israel to robbers? Was it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His Law.

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.