Book of Isaiah, Chapter 42
Chapter 42 of Isaiah
my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my Spirit upon him,
he will bring forth justice to the nations.
or make it heard in the street;
and a dimly burning wick he will not quench;
he will faithfully bring forth justice.
till he has established justice in the earth;
and the coastlands wait for his law.
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread forth the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people upon it
and spirit to those who walk in it:
I have taken you by the hand and kept you;
I have given you as a covenant to the people,
a light to the nations,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.
my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to graven images.
and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
I tell you of them.”
his praise from the end of the earth!
Let the sea roar[c] and all that fills it,
the coastlands and their inhabitants.
the villages that Kedar inhabits;
let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy,
let them shout from the top of the mountains.
and declare his praise in the coastlands.
like a man of war he stirs up his fury;
he cries out, he shouts aloud,
he shows himself mighty against his foes.
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in travail,
I will gasp and pant.
and dry up all their herbage;
I will turn the rivers into islands,
and dry up the pools.
in a way that they know not,
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 will do,
and I will not forsake them.
who trust in graven images,
who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”
and look, you blind, that you may see!
or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as my dedicated one,
or blind as the servant of the LORD?
his ears are open, but he does not hear.
to magnify his law and make it glorious.
they are all of them trapped in holes
and hidden in prisons;
they have become a prey with none to rescue,
a spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
will attend and listen for the time to come?
and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned,
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?
and the might of battle;
it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand;
it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.FOOTNOTES
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