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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Smith's Literal Translation</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" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/42-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Here Is My Servant<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/12.htm#15">Matthew 12:15–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Behold my servant, I will hold fast in him; my chosen, my soul delighted; I gave my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He shall not cry, and be shall not lift up, and he shall not cause his voice to be heard without.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus said God Jehovah, creating the heavens and stretching them out; and spreading out the earth and its productions; giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going upon it:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I Jehovah called thee in justice, and I will hold by thy hand, and I will guard thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for the light of the nations,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth the bound out of prison, those sitting in darkness out of the house of the prison.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I Jehovah, this my name: and my glory I will not give to another, and my praise to carved images.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The first things, behold, they came, and new things I announce: before they shall spring up I will cause you to hear.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">A New Song of Praise<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/98.htm">Psalm 98:1–9</a>; <a href ="../psalms/149.htm">Psalm 149:1–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the extremity of the earth, ye going down to the sea, and its fulness; the isles and their inhabitants.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The desert and its cities shall lift up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit: they inhabiting the rock shall shout for joy, from the head of the mountains they shall shout for joy.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They shall set glory to Jehovah, and they shall announce his praise in the islands.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I was silent of old; I will be still, I will restrain myself: as she bringing forth I will cry out; I will lay waste and snuff up together.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Israel Is Deaf and Blind<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, to see.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who among you will give ear to this? and will attend and hear hereafter?<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who gave Jacob for a treading down, and Israel for spoils? did not Jehovah against whom we sinned? and they would not go in his ways and they heard not to his laws.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And be will pour upon him the heat of his anger, and the strength of war: and it will burn him from round about, and he will not know; 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