Chapter 42 Behold My servant whom I uphold My elect one in whom my soul Delights I have put my spirit upon him He will bring forth Justice to the Gentiles He will not cry out nor raise his voice Nor cause his voice to be heard in the Street A bruised Reed he will not break And smoking flax he will not quench He will bring forth Justice For Truth He will not fail nor be discouraged till He has established Justice in the Earth And the coastlands shall wait for his Law Thus says God the Lord who created the Heavens and stretched them out who Spread forth the Earth and that which Comes from it who gives breath to the People on it And spirit to those who walk on it I the Lord have called you in Righteousness And will hold your hand I will keep you and give you as a Covenant to the people As a light to the Gentiles To open blind eyes To bring out prisoners from the prison Those who sit in darkness from the Prison house I am the Lord
That is my name And my glory I will not give to another Nor my praise to carved images Behold the former things have come to Pass And new things I declare Before they spring forth I tell you of Them Sing to the Lord a new song And his praise from the ends of the Earth You who go down to the Sea and all that Is in it you coastlands and you Inhabitants of them Let the Wilderness and its cities lift Up their voice The Villages that keeda inhabits let the Inhabitants of Selah sing Let Them shout From the top of the mountains let them Give glory to the Lord and declare his Praise in the coastlands The Lord shall go forth like a Mighty Man He shall stir up his Zeal like a man of War He shall cry out yes shout aloud He shall Prevail against his enemies I have held my peace a long time I have been still and restrained myself Now I will cry like a woman in labor I Will Punt and gasp at once I will lay waste the mountains and hills And dry up all their vegetation I will make the rivers coastlands and I
Will dry up the pools I will bring the Blind by a way they did Not know I will lead them in paths they have not Known I will make Darkness light before them And crooked places straight These things I will do for them and not Forsake them They shall be turned back They shall be greatly ashamed who trust In carved images who say to the molded Images you are our gods Here you deaf and look you blind that You may see Who is blind but my servant or death as My messenger whom I send Who is blind as he who is perfect And blind as the Lord's servant Seeing many things but you do not Observe Opening the ears but he does not hear The Lord is well pleased for his Righteousness sake He will exalt the law and make it Honorable But this is a people robbed and Plundered All of them are snared in Holes And they are hidden in prison houses They are for prey and no one delivers For plunder and no one says restore Who among you will give ear to this Who will listen and hear for the time to
Come Who gave Jacob for plunder and Israel to The robbers Was it not the Lord He against whom we have sinned For they would not walk in his ways nor Were they obedient to his law Therefore he has poured on him the fury Of his anger and the strength of battle It has set him on fire all around Yet he did not know And it burned him Yet he did not take it to heart