Isaiah 42
42
First Servant Song: Justice
1Behold My servant, whom I uphold. My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Ruach on Him, He will bring justice to the nations.
2He will not cry out or raise His voice, or make His voice heard in the street.
3A bruised reed He will not break. A smoldering wick He will not snuff out. He will faithfully bring forth justice.
4He will not be disheartened or crushed until He establishes justice on earth. The islands will wait for His Torah.
5Thus says God, Adonai, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and Ruach to those who walk in it—
6“I, Adonai, called You in righteousness, I will take hold of Your hand, I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations,
7by opening blind eyes, bringing prisoners out of the dungeon, and those sitting in darkness out of the prison house.
8“I am Adonai—that is My Name! My glory I will not give to another, Or My praise to graven images.
9Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I announce them to you.”
10Sing to Adonai a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea with all its fullness, islands and their inhabitants.
11Let the desert and its cities exult— the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the dwellers of Sela sing for joy. Let them shout for joy from the top of the mountains.
12Let them give glory to Adonai and declare His praise in the islands.
13Adonai goes out as a mighty one. He stirs up His zeal like a man of war. He will shout, yes, raise a war cry! He will prevail over His enemies.
14“I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I groan, gasping and panting at once.
15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.
16I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
17They will be turned back, utterly put to shame— those trusting in idols, who say to molten images, ‘You are our gods.’
18Hear, you deaf! Look, you blind, so you may see.
19Who is blind, but My Servant? Or deaf as My Messenger that I send? Who is so blind as the one in covenant with Me, blind as Adonai’s Servant?
20You have seen many things, but you do not pay attention. Though ears are open, no one hears.”
21Adonai was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to make Torah great and glorious.
22But this is a people robbed and looted. all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They have become a prey with no one to deliver them, and plunder, with none to say, “Give them back!”
23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and heed hereafter?
24Who gave Jacob to the looter, Israel to the plunderers? Was it not Adonai? Have we not sinned against Him? In His ways they were unwilling to walk and His Torah they did not obey.
25So He poured out on him the fury of His anger, and the fierceness of battle. it blazed all around him, yet he did not understand it. it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.
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Yesha 'yahu (Isa) 42
42
1“Here is my servant, whom I support,
my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure.
I have put my Spirit on him;
he will bring justice to the Goyim.
2He will not cry or shout;
no one will hear his voice in the streets.
3He will not snap off a broken reed
or snuff out a smoldering wick.
He will bring forth justice according to truth;
4he will not weaken or be crushed
until he has established justice on the earth,
and the coastlands wait for his Torah.”
5Thus says God, Adonai,
who created the heavens and spread them out,
who stretched out the earth and all that grows from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and spirit to those who walk on it:
6“I, Adonai, called you righteously,
I took hold of you by the hand,
I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people,
to be a light for the Goyim,
7so that you can open blind eyes,
free the prisoners from confinement,
those living in darkness from the dungeon.
8I am Adonai; that is my name.
I yield my glory to no one else,
nor my praise to any idol.
9See how the former predictions come true;
and now new things do I declare —
before they sprout I tell you about them.”
10Sing to Adonai a new song!
Let his praise be sung from the ends of the earth
by those sailing the sea and by everything in it,
by the coastlands and those living there.
11Let the desert and its cities raise their voices,
the villages where Kedar lives;
let those living in Sela shout for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops!
12Let them give glory to Adonai
and proclaim his praise in the coastlands.
13Adonai will go out like a soldier,
like a soldier roused to the fury of battle;
he will shout, yes, he raises the battle cry;
as he triumphs over his foes.
14“For a long time I have held my peace,
I have been silent, restrained myself.
Now I will shriek like a woman in labor,
panting and gasping for air.
15I will devastate mountains and hills,
wither all their vegetation,
turn the rivers into islands
and dry up the lakes.
16The blind I will lead on a road they don’t know,
on roads they don’t know I will lead them;
I will turn darkness to light before them,
and straighten their twisted paths.
These are things I will do without fail.
17Those who trust in idols,
who say to statues, ‘You are our gods,’
will be repulsed in utter shame.
18Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind! —
so that you will see!
19Who is as blind as my servant,
or as deaf as the messenger I send?
Who is as blind as the one I rewarded,
as blind as the servant of Adonai?”
20You see much but don’t pay attention;
you open your ears, but you don’t listen.
21Adonai was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake,
to make the Torah great and glorious.
22But this is a people pillaged and plundered,
all trapped in holes and sequestered in prisons.
They are there to be plundered, with no one to rescue them;
there to be pillaged, and no one says, “Return them!”
23Which of you will listen to this?
Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?
24Who gave Ya‘akov to be pillaged,
Isra’el to the plunderers?
Didn’t Adonai, against whom we have sinned,
in whose ways they refused to walk,
he whose Torah they did not obey?
25This is why he poured on him his blazing anger
as well as the fury of battle —
it wrapped him in flames, yet he learned nothing;
it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.
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