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<p class="indent2">My chosen one <i>in whom</i> My soul is well-pleased. <p class="indent2">I have put My Spirit upon Him; <p class="indent2">He will bring forth justice to the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>nations. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He will not cry out or raise <i>His voice</i>, <p class="indent2">Nor make His voice heard in the street. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>A crushed reed He will not break <p class="indent2">And a faintly burning wick He will not extinguish; <p class="indent2">He will bring forth justice in truth. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He will not be faint or crushed <p class="indent2">Until He has established justice in the earth; <p class="indent2">And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>law.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus says the God, Yahweh, <p class="indent2">Who created the heavens and stretched them out, <p class="indent2">Who spread out the earth and its <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>offspring, <p class="indent2">Who gives breath to the people on it <p class="indent2">And spirit to those who walk in it, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“I am Yahweh, I have called You in righteousness; <p class="indent2">I will also take hold of You by the hand and guard You, <p class="indent2">And I will give You as a covenant to the people, <p class="indent2">As a light to the nations, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To open blind eyes, <p class="indent2">To bring out prisoners from the dungeon <p class="indent2">And those who inhabit darkness from the prison. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I am Yahweh, that is My name; <p class="indent2">I will not give My glory to another, <p class="indent2">Nor My praise to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>graven images. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Behold, the former things have come to pass; <p class="indent2">Now I declare new things; <p class="indent2">Before they spring forth I cause you to hear <i>them</i>.” <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Sing to Yahweh a new song, <p class="indent2"><i>Sing</i> His praise from the end of the earth! <p class="indent2">You who go down to the sea, as well as its fullness. <p class="indent2">You coastlands, and those who inhabit them. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let the wilderness and its cities lift up <i>their voices</i>, <p class="indent2">The villages where Kedar inhabits. <p class="indent2">Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, <p class="indent2">Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let them give glory to Yahweh <p class="indent2">And declare His praise in the coastlands. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yahweh will go forth like a warrior; <p class="indent2">He will awaken <i>His</i> zeal like a man of war. <p class="indent2">He will make a loud shout, indeed, He will raise a war cry. <p class="indent2">He will prevail against His enemies. <p class="hdg">Israel’s Blindness and Deafness</p><p><p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“I have kept silent for a long time; <p class="indent2">I have kept still and restrained Myself. <p class="indent2"><i>Now</i> like a woman in labor I will groan; <p class="indent2">I will both gasp and pant. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will lay waste the mountains and hills <p class="indent2">And dry up all their vegetation; <p class="indent2">I will make the rivers into coastlands <p class="indent2">And dry up the pools <i>of waters</i>. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, <p class="indent2">In paths they do not know I will guide them. <p class="indent2">I will make darkness into light before them <p class="indent2">And rugged places into plains. <p class="indent2">These are the things I will do, <p class="indent2">And I will not forsake them.” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They will be turned back <i>and</i> be utterly put to shame, <p class="indent2">Who trust in graven images, <p class="indent2">Who say to molten images, <p class="indent2">“You are our gods.” <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hear, you deaf! <p class="indent2">And look, you blind, that you may see. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who is blind but My servant, <p class="indent2">Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? <p class="indent2">Who is so blind as he that is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>at peace <i>with Me</i>, <p class="indent2">Or so blind as the servant of Yahweh? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You have seen many things, but you do not keep <i>them</i>; <p class="indent2"><i>Your</i> ears are open, but none hears. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yahweh was pleased for His righteousness’ sake <p class="indent2">That He make the law great and majestic. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But this is a people plundered and <i>pillaged</i> as spoil; <p class="indent2">All of them are trapped in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>caves, <p class="indent2">Or are hidden away in prisons; <p class="indent2">They have become a plunder with none to deliver <i>them</i>, <p class="indent2">And a spoil, with none to say, “Have <i>them</i> return!” <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who among you will give ear to this? <p class="indent2">Who will give heed and hear hereafter? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? <p class="indent2">Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned, <p class="indent2">And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, <p class="indent2">And whose law they did not obey? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So He poured out on him the heat of His anger <p class="indent2">And the fierceness of battle; <p class="indent2">And it set him aflame all around, <p class="indent2">Yet he did not know <i>it</i>; <p class="indent2">And it burned him, but he did not set it upon his heart.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>hold fast</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>Gentiles</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>instruction</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>vegetation</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>idols</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>the devoted one</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>holes</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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