Isaiah 42

CLV(i) 1 Behold My Servant! I am upholding Him. My Chosen! Accepted by My soul! I bestow My spirit upon Him, and He shall bring forth judgment to the nations." 2 He shall not cry, nor make a tumult, nor cause His voice to be heard outside." 3 A bruised reed He will not break, and dimmed flax He will not quench, for truth will He bring forth judgment." 4 And He will not dim nor bruise till He shall place judgment in the earth. And the coastlanders will wait for His law." 5 Thus says the El, Yahweh Elohim, Creator of the heavens, Who stretched them out, Who stamped the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going in it:" 6 I, Yahweh Elohim, call you in righteousness, and I will hold fast to your hand and preserve you, and I will give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Nations, 7 to unclose the eyes that are blind, to bring forth the prisoner from his enclosure, and those dwelling in darkness from the house of detention." 8 I am Yahweh, The Elohim! That is My name, and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praises to carvings." 9 The former things; behold, they came! And the new things will I tell. Ere they are sprouting, I will announce them to you." 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the ends of the earth, those going down to the sea, and its fullness, the coastlands, and their dwellers." 11 Elated is the wilderness and its cities, the environs with dwellers so somber. And jubilate shall the dwellers of the crag; from the summit of the mountains shall they yell." 12 They shall give glory to Yahweh, and His praise in the coastlands shall they tell." 13 Yahweh Elohim as a master shall fare forth, as a man of war shall He rouse jealousy. He shall shout. Indeed, He shall shriek. He has the mastery over His enemies." 14 Yea, I hushed from the eon. I will be silent. I will check Myself. As a bearing woman I will puff up. I will breathe, and gulp together." 15 I will drain mountains and hills, and all their herbage will I dry up. And I convert streams into arid areas, and the marshes will I dry up." 16 And I will conduct the blind in a way they do not know, and in tracks they do not know will I cause them to tread. I will convert darkness before them into light, and the perverse into straightness. These things I do for them, 17 nor do I forsake them, when they are turned away back. Ashamed, yea ashamed shall be those trusting in a carving, who are saying to a molten image, `You are our elohim!'" 18 You deaf, hear! And you blind, look, to see!" 19 And who is blind, save My servant? And deaf, as My messenger that I am sending? Who is blind as one repaid? And deaf as the servant of Yahweh? 20 You see much, yet you are not observing. Unclosed are your ears, yet you are not hearkening." 21 Yahweh Elohim desires, on account of His righteousness, both to magnify the law, and ennoble it." 22 Yet they come to be a people plundered and robbed, snared in holes, all of them, and in houses of detention are they hidden. They come to be for plunder, and there is no rescuer, for robbery, and no one says "Restore." 23 Who among you will give ear to this? And will attend and hearken for the hereafter? 24 Who gives Jacob to the robber, and Israel to plunderers? Is it not Yahweh Elohim, this One against Whom they sin? Yet they are not willing to go in His ways. And they are not hearkening to His law." 25 And He will pour out the fury of His anger on him, and strengthen the battle. And it will set him aflame round about. Yet he will not know that it shall consume among them. Yet they will not lay it to heart."