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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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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