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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 42 DRB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/42.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</a> > Isaiah 42</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/41.htm" title="Isaiah 41">◄</a> Isaiah 42 <a href="../isaiah/43.htm" title="Isaiah 43">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Douay-Rheims Bible</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">The Lord's Chosen Servant<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/12.htm#15">Matthew 12:15-21</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>BEHOLD my servant, I will uphold him: my elect, my soul delighteth in him: I have given my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He shall not cry, nor have respect to person, neither shall his voice be heard abroad. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The things that were first, behold they are come: and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I will make you head them. </p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">A New Song of Praise<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../psalms/98.htm">Psalm 98:1-9</a>; <a href="../psalms/149.htm">Psalm 149:1-9</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Sing ye to the Lora a new song, his praise is from the ends of the earth: you that go down to the sea, and all that are therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let the desert and the cities thereof be exalted: Cedar shall dwell in houses: ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they shall cry from the top of the mountains. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They shall give glory to the Lord, and shall declare his praise in the islands. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god. </p> <p class="hdg">Israel is Deaf and Blind</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>20. Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay-Rheims Bible<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/43.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 43"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 43" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>