mkjv - Isaiah:42-44

mkjv@Isaiah:42:1 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:3 @ A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring out judgment to truth.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His law.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:5 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:6 @ 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;

mkjv@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:8 @ I [am] Jehovah; that [is] My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:10 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:11 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:12 @ Give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the coastlands.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:13 @ The LORD goes out as a warrior, He stirs up zeal like a man of wars; He shouts, yea, roars; He overcomes His enemies.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:14 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:15 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:16 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:17 @ They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You [are] our gods.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, deaf ones; and blind ones look to see.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:19 @ 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 the LORD's servant?

mkjv@Isaiah:42:20 @ You see many things, but do not pay attention. [Your] ears [are] open, but not any hears.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:21 @ The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make [it] honorable.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:22 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who among you will hear this? He will listen and hear for the time to come?

mkjv@Isaiah:42:24 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:25 @ 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:1 @ But now so says the LORD who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called [you] by your name; you [are] Mine.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:2 @ When you pass through the waters, I [will be] with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I [am] the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt [for] your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not; for I [am] with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

mkjv@Isaiah:43:7 @ everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, [I have] made him.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:8 @ Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:9 @ Let all the nations be brought together, and let the people be gathered; who among them can declare this and make us hear former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is] true.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:10 @ You [are] My witnesses, says the LORD, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I [am] He. Before Me no God was formed, nor shall there be after Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, I [am] Jehovah; and [there is] none to save besides Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when [there was] no strange [god] among you; therefore you [are] My witnesses, says Jehovah, that I [am] God.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:13 @ Yea, before the day [was], I [am] He; and no one delivers out of My hand; I will work, and who will reverse it?

mkjv@Isaiah:43:14 @ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all of them [as] fugitives, and the Chaldeans, whose shout [is] in the ships.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I [am] the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:16 @ So says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters;

mkjv@Isaiah:43:17 @ who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are put out, they are snuffed out like a wick.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:18 @ Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:21 @ This people [that] I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:22 @ But you have not called on Me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:24 @ You have bought Me no sweet cane with silver, nor have you filled Me [with] the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:25 @ I, I [am] He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:26 @ Cause Me to remember; let us enter into judgment; declare yourself, that you may be justified.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have sinned against Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:43:28 @ And I will defile rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:1 @ Yet now hear, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;

mkjv@Isaiah:44:2 @ So says the LORD who made you, and formed you from the womb, [who] will help you; Fear not, O Jacob My servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring;

mkjv@Isaiah:44:4 @ and they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:5 @ One shall say, I [am] the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, For the LORD, and be named by the name of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:6 @ So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and His redeemer Jehovah of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides Me [there is] no God.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:7 @ And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:8 @ Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you and made you hear since then? So you [are] My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Yea, [there is] none. I have not known a Rock.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:9 @ Those who make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they [are] their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:10 @ Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:11 @ Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen; they [are] from men. They shall assemble; all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be ashamed together.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:12 @ He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:13 @ He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to sit [in the] house.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:14 @ He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes [it] grow.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:15 @ And it shall be for a man to burn; for he will take some of it and warm himself. Yes, he kindles [it] and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships; he makes it a graven image and falls down to it.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:16 @ He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast and is satisfied; yea, he warms [himself], and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me! for you [are] my god.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; [and] their hearts so that they cannot understand.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:19 @ And none thinks within his heart, nor [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:20 @ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:21 @ Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you [are] My servant; I have formed you; you [are] My servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:22 @ I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:23 @ Sing, O heavens; for the LORD has done [it]. Shout, lower parts of the earth. Break out into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:44:24 @ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, I [am] Jehovah who makes all things; who stretches out the heavens alone; who spreads out the earth; who [was] with Me?

mkjv@Isaiah:44:25 @ who brings to nothing the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns the wise backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

mkjv@Isaiah:44:26 @ who makes the word of His servant sure, and makes good the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, She shall have people; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;

mkjv@Isaiah:44:27 @ who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;

mkjv@Isaiah:44:28 @ who says of Cyrus, [He is] My shepherd, and shall do all My pleasure; even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.

mkjv@Isaiah:45:1 @ So says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have made strong in order to humble nations before him. And I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut.