Isaiah:42

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* Behold My Servant , whom I uphold ; My Elect , [in whom ] My soul delights . I have put My Spirit on Him ; He shall bring out judgment to the nations . * He shall not cry , nor lift up , nor cause His voice to be heard in the street . * A bruised reed He shall not break , and a smoking wick He shall not quench ; He shall bring out judgment to truth . * He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth ; and the coasts shall wait for His law . * So says Jehovah God , [He ] who created the heavens and stretched them out , spreading out the earth and its offspring ; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it . * I the LORD 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 ; * to open the blind eyes , to bring out the prisoners from the prison , those who sit in darkness out of the prison house . * I [am ] Jehovah ; that [is ] My name ; and My glory I will not give to another , nor My praise to graven images . * Behold , the former things have come to pass , and new things I declare ; before they happen , I cause you to hear . * Sing to the LORD a new song ; His praise from the end of the earth , you who go down to the sea , and its fullness ; coasts and their peoples . * Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice ], the villages where Kedar dwells . Let the dwellers of the rock sing , let them shout from the mountain tops . * Give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the coastlands . * The LORD goes out as a warrior , He stirs up zeal like a man of wars ; He shouts , yea , roars ; He overcomes His enemies . * I have kept silence from forever ; I have been still and refrained Myself . [Now ] I will cry like a woman in pangs of labor , I will pant and gasp at once . * I will make waste mountains and hills , and dry up all their plants . And I will make the rivers coastlands , and I will dry up the pools . * And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not ; I will lead them in paths they have not known ; I will make darkness light before them , and crooked things straight . I will do these things to them , and not forsake them . * They are turned back , they are greatly ashamed , those who trust in graven images and who say to the images , You [are ] our gods . * Hear , deaf ones ; and blind ones look to see . * 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 the LORD 's servant ? * You see many things , but do not pay attention . [Your ] ears [are ] open , but not any hears . * The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake ; He will magnify the Law and make [it ] honorable . * But this [is ] a people robbed and spoiled ; all of them snared in holes , and they are hidden in prison-houses ; they have been taken , and none delivers them ; a prize , and none says , Give back . * Who among you will hear this ? He will listen and hear for the time to come ? * Who gave Jacob for a spoil , and Israel to robbers ? Did not the LORD , against whom we have sinned ? For they would not walk in His ways , nor did they obey His law . * So He has 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 ] to heart .

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