1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul
delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the
Gentiles. 2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be
heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly
burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.
4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the
earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he
who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the
earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on
it, and spirit to those who walk therein: 6 I, Yahweh, have called you in
righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 to open the blind
eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in
darkness out of the prison-house. 8 I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my
glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images.
9 Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare.
Before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea,
and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it. 11 Let the
wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages
that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout
from the top of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and
declare his praise in the islands. 13 Yahweh will go forth as a mighty
man; he will stir up his zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he
will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies. 14 I have long
time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will
I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together. 15 I
will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will
make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. 16 I will bring the
blind by a way that they don’t know; in paths that they don’t know will I
lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places
straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them. 17 They
shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in
engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods. 18 Hear,
you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. 19 Who is
blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as
he who is at peace, and blind as Yahweh’s servant? 20 You see many things,
but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t hear. 21 It pleased
Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it
honorable. 22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of
them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey,
and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore. 23 Who is there
among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to
come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t
Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not
walk, neither were they obedient to his law. 25 Therefore he poured on him
the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on
fire round about, yet he didn’t know; and it burned him, yet he didn’t lay it
to heart.
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