42Isaiah 42

1Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit on him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.Select Isaiah 42:1

2He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.Select Isaiah 42:2

3A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.Select Isaiah 42:3

4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. ¶Select Isaiah 42:4

5Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein:Select Isaiah 42:5

6I the LORD 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;Select Isaiah 42:6

7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.Select Isaiah 42:7

8I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.Select Isaiah 42:8

9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.Select Isaiah 42:9

10Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.Select Isaiah 42:10

11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar does inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.Select Isaiah 42:11

12Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.Select Isaiah 42:12

13The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yes, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.Select Isaiah 42:13

14I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.Select Isaiah 42:14

15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.Select Isaiah 42:15

16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and not forsake them. ¶Select Isaiah 42:16

17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.Select Isaiah 42:17

18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.Select Isaiah 42:18

19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?Select Isaiah 42:19

20Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not.Select Isaiah 42:20

21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.Select Isaiah 42:21

22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; 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.Select Isaiah 42:22

23Who among you will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?Select Isaiah 42:23

24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.Select Isaiah 42:24

25Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.Select Isaiah 42:25