Isaiah:42

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* Jacob is (note :)Mt strkjv @12:18 , etc .(:note ) my servant , I will help him : Israel is my chosen , my soul has accepted him ; I have put my Spirit upon him ; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles . * He shall not cry , nor lift up his voice , nor shall his voice be heard without . * A bruised reed shall he not break , and smoking flax shall he not quench ; but he shall bring forth judgement to truth . * He shall shine out , and shall not be (note :)Lit . broken (:note ) discouraged , until he have set judgement on the earth : and in his name shall the Gentiles trust . * Thus saith the Lord God , who made the heaven , and established it ; who settled the earth , and the things in it , and gives breath to the people on it , and spirit to them that tread on it : * I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness , and will hold thine hand , and will strengthen thee : and I have given thee for the covenant of a race , for a light of the Gentiles : * to open the eyes of the blind , to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house . * I am the Lord God : that is my name : I will not give my glory to another , nor my praises to graven images . * Behold , the ancient things have come to pass , and so will the new things which I tell you : yea , before I tell them they are made known to you . * Sing a new hymn to the Lord : ye who are his dominion , glorify his name from the end of the earth : ye that go down to the sea , and sail upon it ; the islands , and they that dwell in them . * Rejoice , thou wilderness , and the villages thereof , the hamlets , and the dwellers in Kedar : the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice , they shall shout from the top of the mountains . * They shall give glory to God , and shall proclaim his praises in the islands . * The Lord God of hosts shall go forth , and crush the war : he shall stir up jealousy , and shall shout mightily against his enemies . * I have been silent : shall I also always be silent and forbear : I have endured like a travailing woman : I will now amaze and wither at once . * I will make desolate mountains and hills , and will dry up all their grass ; and I will make the rivers islands , and dry up the pools . * And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not , and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known : I will turn darkness into light for them , and crooked things into straight . These things will I do , and will not forsake them . * But they are turned back : be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images , who say to the molten images , Ye are our gods . * Hear , ye deaf , and look up , ye blind , to see . * And who is blind , but my servants ? and deaf , but they that rule over them ? yea , the servants of God have been made blind . * Ye have often seen , and have not taken heed ; your ears have been opened , and ye have not heard . * The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified , and might magnify his praise . * And I beheld , and the people were spoiled and plundered : for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere , and in the houses also , where they have hidden them : they became a spoil , and there was no one that delivered the prey , and there was none who said , Restore . * Who is there among you that will give ear to these things ? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass . * * So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath ; and the war , and those that burnt round about them , prevailed against them ; yet no one of them knew it , neither did they lay it to heart .

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