Isaiah 42
42Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.H5650H8551H972H5315H7521H5414H7307H3318H4941H14712He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;H6817H5375H6963H8085H23513a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.H7533H7070H7665H3544H6594H3518H3318H4941H5714He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.H3543H7533H7760H4941H776H339H3176H84515Thus says God, the LORD, 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 spirit to those who walk in it:H559H410H3068H1254H8064H5186H7554H776H6631H5414H5397H5971H7307H19806"I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,H3068H7121H6664H2388H3027H5341H5414H1285H5971H216H14717to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.H6491H5787H5869H3318H616H4525H3427H2822H3608H10048I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.H3068H8034H3519H5414H312H8416H64569Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."H7223H935H2319H5046H6779H808510Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.H7891H3068H2319H7892H8416H7097H776H3381H3220H4393H339H342711Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.H4057H5892H5375H2691H6938H3427H3427H5553H7442H6681H7218H202212Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.H7760H3519H3068H5046H8416H33913The LORD goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.H3068H3318H1368H5782H7068H376H4421H7321H6873H1396H34114For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.H5769H2814H2790H662H6463H3205H5395H8074H7602H316215I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.H2717H2022H1389H3001H6212H7760H5104H339H3001H9816And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.H3212H5787H1870H3045H1869H5410H3045H7760H4285H216H6440H4625H4334H1697H6213H580017They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods."H5472H268H1322H954H982H6459H559H4541H43018Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!H8085H2795H5027H5787H720019Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?H5787H5650H2795H4397H7971H5787H7999H5787H3068H565020He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.H7200H7200H7227H8104H6491H241H808521The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.H3068H2654H6664H1431H8451H14222But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"H5971H962H8154H6351H2352H970H2244H3608H1004H957H5337H4933H559H772523Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?H238H7181H8085H26824Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?H5414H3290H4933H4882H3478H962H3068H2098H2398H14H1980H1870H8085H845125So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.H8210H2534H639H5807H4421H3857H5439H3045H1197H7760H3820
Columbus, OH
