Isaiah:42

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* 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 . * He shall not cry out , 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 forth justice unto truth . * He shall not fail nor be discouraged , until He has established justice on the earth ; and the islands shall wait for His Law . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 spring forth , I proclaim them to you . * 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 . * 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 . * Give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the coastlands . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Hear , you deaf ; and look , you blind , that you may 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 Jehovah ’s servant ? * You see many things , but do not observe ; opening the ears , but no one hears . * Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness ’ sake ; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable . * 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 ! * Who among you will give ear to this ? Who will listen and hear for the time to come ? * 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 . * 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 .

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