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I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to 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 raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street.<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 bruised reed He will not break And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.<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 be disheartened or crushed Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law."<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">Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in 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 am the LORD, I have called you in righteousness, I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you, And I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, As 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 bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.<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 give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.<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">"Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim 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 new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them.<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 wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, The settlements where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.<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 glory to the LORD And declare His praise 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 will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.<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 kept silent for a long time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant.<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 lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds.<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 by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone."<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">They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in idols, Who say to molten 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">Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.<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">Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?<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 have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears.<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 was pleased for His righteousness' sake To make the law great and glorious.<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 this is a people plundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, "Give them 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 give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?<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 gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?<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 on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but he paid no attention.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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