Isaiah 42 NKJV

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My Servant whom I uphold,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-1">My <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>Elect One <i>in whom</i> My soul delights!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-1">I have put My Spirit upon Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-1">He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He will not cry out, nor raise <i>His voice,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-2">Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>A bruised reed He will not break,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-3">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>smoking flax He will not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>quench;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-3">He will bring forth justice for truth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He will not fail nor be discouraged,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-4">Till He has established justice in the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-4">And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus says God the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-5">Who created the heavens and stretched them out,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-5">Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-5">Who gives breath to the people on it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-5">And spirit to those who walk on it:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, have called You in righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-6">And will hold Your hand;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-6">I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-6">As a light to the Gentiles,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To open blind eyes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-7">To bring out prisoners from the prison,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-7">Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, that <i>is</i> My name;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-8">And My glory I will not give to another,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-8">Nor My praise to carved images.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Behold, the former things have come to pass,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-9">And new things I declare;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-9">Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”</span></p></div> <h3> Praise to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-42-10"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Sing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> a new song,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-10"><i>And</i> His praise from the ends of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-10">You who go down to the sea, and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>all that is in it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-10">You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let the wilderness and its cities lift up <i>their voice,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-11">The villages <i>that</i> Kedar inhabits.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-11">Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-11">Let them shout from the top of the mountains.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let them give glory to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-12">And declare His praise in the coastlands.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> shall go forth like a mighty man;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-13">He shall stir up <i>His</i> zeal like a man of war.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-13">He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-13">He shall prevail against His enemies.</span></p></div> <h3> Promise of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s Help</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-42-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“I have held My peace a long time,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-14">I have been still and restrained Myself.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-14"><i>Now</i> I will cry like a woman in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>labor,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-14">I will pant and gasp at once.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will lay waste the mountains and hills,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-15">And dry up all their vegetation;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-15">I will make the rivers coastlands,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-15">And I will dry up the pools.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-16">I will lead them in paths they have not known.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-16">I will make darkness light before them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-16">And crooked places straight.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-16">These things I will do for them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-16">And not forsake them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They shall be turned back,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-17">They shall be greatly ashamed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-17">Who trust in carved images,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-17">Who say to the molded images,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-17">‘You <i>are</i> our gods.’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Hear, you deaf;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-18">And look, you blind, that you may see.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who <i>is</i> blind but My servant,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-19">Or deaf as My messenger <i>whom</i> I send?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-19">Who <i>is</i> blind as <i>he who is</i> perfect,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-19">And blind as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s servant?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Seeing many things, but you do not observe;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-20">Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”</span></p></div> <h3> Israel’s Obstinate Disobedience</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-42-21"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-21">He will exalt the law and make <i>it</i> honorable.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But this <i>is</i> a people robbed and plundered;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-22">All of them are <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>snared in holes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-22">And they are hidden in prison houses;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-22">They are for prey, and no one delivers;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-22">For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who among you will give ear to this?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-23"><i>Who</i> will listen and hear for the time to come?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-24">Was it not the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-24">He against whom we have sinned?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-24">For they would not walk in His ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-24">Nor were they obedient to His law.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/42-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-25">And the strength of battle;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-25">It has set him on fire all around,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-25">Yet he did not know;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-25">And it burned him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-42-25">Yet he did not take <i>it</i> to heart.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18482a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:1">Isaiah 42:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Chosen</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18484b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:3">Isaiah 42:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>dimly burning</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18484c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:3">Isaiah 42:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>extinguish</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18491d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:10">Isaiah 42:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>its fullness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18495e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:14">Isaiah 42:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>childbirth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18503f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 42:22">Isaiah 42:22</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>trapped in caves</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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