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I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He will not cry out or shout; he will not publicize himself in the streets. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is what the true God, the LORD, says--the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it: <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I, the LORD, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I am the LORD! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; now I announce new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Sing to the LORD a brand new song! Praise him from the horizon of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it, you coastlands and those who live there! <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let them give the LORD the honor he deserves; let them praise his deeds in the coastlands. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD emerges like a hero, like a warrior he inspires himself for battle; he shouts, yes, he yells, he shows his enemies his power. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'" <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones! <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the LORD, is truly blind. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You see many things, but don't comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!" <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. 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