Isaiah 42
42
1Look! Here is my servant, the one I support; my chosen one who pleases me.#42:1. Matthew applies this passage to Jesus: Matthew 12:18-21. I have placed my Spirit on him, and he will show the nations what is right. 2He won't shout or cry out; he won't raise his voice in the street. 3He won't break a damaged reed; he won't snuff out a smoldering wick. He will faithfully make sure everyone is treated fairly. 4He won't give up or become discouraged until he has made sure that justice is upheld throughout the world. Even lands overseas will look forward to his teachings.
5This is what God the Lord says, the one who created the heavens and stretched them out, who made the earth and everything in it, who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live there: 6“I, the Lord, have called you to demonstrate what's right, and I will hold your hand. I will take care of you, and give you as a sign of my agreement with the people and as a light to the nations. 7You will make the blind see, set free those who are locked up, and lead those who sit in darkness out from prison.
8I am the Lord—that is my name! I do not give my honor to anyone else; I do not give my praise to idols. 9Notice that what I foretold has come true, as will the new things I'm saying to you now. I tell you what will happen before it does.”
10Sing a new song to the Lord! Sing praise from everywhere on earth, you who sail on the sea and everything in it, you islands and everyone who lives in them. 11Let the people in the desert and its towns shout; let the people of the villages of Kedar cry out loud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountain-tops. 12Let them glorify the Lord and praise him in the islands. 13Like a mighty warrior the Lord will march out, like a seasoned soldier he goes out with courage. He gives his war-cry, shouting as he battles and defeats his enemies.
14“I didn't say anything for a long time, I kept quiet and restrained myself. But now like a woman giving birth, I will moan and gasp and pant. 15I will dry up the mountains and the hills, and make all their greenery wither. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools. 16I will lead the blind along a road they don't know; I will guide them along paths they don't know. I will turn darkness into light before them, and smooth out the rough places. This is what I'm going to do for them; I won't let them down. 17But those who trust in idols and say to images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be rejected in humiliation and shame.
18Listen, you deaf people! Look and see, you blind people! 19Who is blind like my servant? Who is deaf like my messenger that I send? Who is as blind as the people of the agreement? Who is as blind as the servant of the Lord?#42:19. This verse and the following seem to apply to God's people rather than the “Messianic” servant. 20You've looked at many things but have not really seen; you've heard but never really listened.”
21Because the Lord does what is right he wanted to show how important and wonderful his instructions were. 22But this people ended up robbed and raided, all of them trapped in holes or hidden in prisons. They have been stolen like loot, with no one to save them from being someone's prize, no one to say “Give them back!”
23Who of you is going to listen to this, or pay attention later on? 24Who let Jacob be taken as loot; who let Israel be taken by robbers? Wasn't it the Lord who we sinned against? The people weren't willing to follow his ways, and they refused to obey his law. 25So he poured out his furious anger on them, and the violence of war. Even though they were surrounded by flames, but they still didn't understand. The fire burned them up, but they still did not take the situation seriously.
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Yeshayah 42
42
1Here is Avdi,#42:1 Moshiach, see Zech 3:8; Isa 52:13 whom I uphold; Mine Bechir (Elect One, Chosen One), in whom My nefesh delighteth; I have put My Ruach#42:1 Hakodesh upon Him; He#42:1 Moshiach shall bring forth mishpat to the Goyim.
2He#42:2 Moshiach shall not cry out, nor lift up His kol (voice), nor cause it to be heard in the street.
3A bruised reed shall He#42:3 Moshiach not break, and a smoking wick shall He not quench; He shall bring forth mishpat according to emes.
4He#42:4 Moshiach shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He establish mishpat ba'aretz; and the iyim shall wait for His (Moshiachʼs) torah.#42:4 1C 9:21
5Thus saith HaEl Hashem, Boreh HaShomayim, and the One stretching them out; He that spread out ha'aretz, and that which cometh out of it as produce; He that giveth neshamah (soul) unto HaAm upon it, and ruach to them that walk thereon:#42:5 See 1Th 5:23
6I Hashem have called Thee in tzedek, and will take hold of Thine yad, and will keep Thee, and give Thee#42:6 Moshiach for a Brit#42:6 Mt 26:28 (Covenant) of the Am (People), for an Ohr Goyim;
7To open the einayim ivrot (blind eyes), to bring out the captives from confinement, and them that sit in choshech out of the bais keleh (dungeon, prison).
8I am Hashem; that is Shmi; and My kavod will I not give to another, neither My tehillah (praise) to pesilim.
9Hinei, the rishonot (former things) are come to pass, and chadashot (new things) do I declare; before titzmachnah (they spring forth; Tzemach) I tell you of them.
10Sing unto Hashem a shir chadesh (new song), and His tehillah from the ketzeh ha'aretz, ye that go down to the yam, and all that is therein. You iyim (islands), and the inhabitants thereof.
11Let the midbar and the towns thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the rosh harim.
12Let them give kavod unto Hashem, and declare His tehillah in the iyim.
13 Hashem shall go forth like a Gibbor, He shall arouse kina (zeal) like an ish milchamah; He shall shout, indeed, raise a war cry; He shall prevail against His oyevim.
14I have me'olam held My peace; I have been quiet, and refrained Myself; now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will lay waste and devour at once.
15I will lay waste harim and geva'ot (hills), and dry up all their esev (vegetation); and I will make the neharot into iyim, and I will dry up agamim (pools, lakes).
16And I will bring the ivrim (blind) by a derech that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make choshech into ohr before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in pesel, that say to the masekhah (molten images), You (plural) are eloheinu (our g-ds).
18Hear, ye chereshim (deaf people); and look, ye ivrim (blind people) that ye may see.
19Who is ivver (blind), but Avdi?#42:19 Yisroel Or cheresh (deaf), like malachi that I sent? Who is ivver (blind) like meshullam (the one committed),#42:19 to Me and ivver like the Eved Hashem.#42:19 i.e., Yisroel
20Seeing rabbot, but thou observest not; opening the oznayim, but he heareth not.
21 Hashem is well pleased lema'an (for the sake of) His tzedek; He will magnify the torah, and make it glorious.
22But this is Am (People) robbed and looted; they are all of them snared in holes, or hidden in batei kela'im (dungeons): they are for plunder, and none delivereth; for loot, and none saith, Give it back!
23Who among you will give ozen (ear) to this? Who will pay heed and hear for the time to come?
24Who gave Ya'akov as loot, and Yisroel to ones plundering? Did not Hashem, He against Whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in the darkhei HaShem, neither were they obedient unto His torah.
25Therefore He hath poured upon it the chemah (burning heat) of His anger, and the strength of the fury of milchamah; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet it knew not; and it consumed it, yet it laid it not to lev.
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