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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Isaiah 42
42
1Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one — My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
2He doth not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard, in the street.
3A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.
4He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
5Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.
6I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
7To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
8I [am] Jehovah, this [is] My name, And Mine honour to another I give not, Nor My praise to graven images.
9The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.
10Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants.
11The wilderness and its cities do lift up [the voice], The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.
12They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.
13 Jehovah as a mighty one goeth forth. As a man of war He stirreth up zeal, He crieth, yea, He shrieketh, Against His enemies He showeth Himself mighty.
14I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together.
15I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
16And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These [are] the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
17Removed backward — utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, ‘Ye [are] our gods.’
18Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
19Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?
20Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.
21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
22And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes — all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, ‘Restore.’
23Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
24Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah — He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.
25And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!
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