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ULT ISA Chapter 42

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42 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;

my chosen one, my spirit is pleased.

I have put my Spirit upon him;

he will bring justice to the nations.

2 He will not cry out and he will not lift up his voice,

and he will not make his voice heard outside.

3 A crushed reed he will not break,

and a feeble wick he will not quench.

He will faithfully bring forth justice;

4 he will not grow faint and not be broken,

until he has established justice on the earth,

and the coastlands wait for his law.”

5 Thus says God, Yahweh,

who created the heavens and stretched them out,

who forged the earth and all its produce,

who gives breath to the people on it

and air to those who live on it:

6 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness

and held your hand,

and I will keep you and set you

as a covenant of the people,

as a light of the nations,

7 to open the eyes of the blind,

to release the prisoners from the dungeon,

from the house of confinement, dwellers of darkness.

8 “I am Yahweh, that is my name,

and my glory I shall not give to another

or my praise to carved idols.

9 Behold, the previous things came to pass;

and I shall declare new things.

Before they sprout I shall announce them.”

10 Sing to Yahweh a new song,

his praise from the end of the earth;

those who descend into the sea and its fullness,

the coastlands and their dwellers.

11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,

the villages where Kedar lives.

Let the inhabitants of Sela sing;

from the tops of mountains let them shout.

12 Let them give glory to Yahweh

and his praise in the coastlands let them declare.

13 Yahweh will go out as a warrior; as a man of war he will stir up his zeal.

He will shout, yes, he will raise a battle cry;

over his enemies he prevails.

14 “I have kept quiet from ancient times;

I have been still; I have restrained myself;

like a woman giving birth I shall cry out;

I shall gasp and pant at once.

15 I shall destroy mountains and hills

and all their vegetation dry up;

and I shall turn the rivers into islands

and the marshes dry up.

16 And I shall bring the blind by a way they do not know;

in paths they do not know I shall lead them.

I shall turn the darkness into light before their faces,

and the crooked places straighten.

These things I shall do,

and I shall not abandon them.

17 They will be turned back, be completely ashamed,

who trust in carved figures,

who say to cast figures,

‘You are our gods.’

18 “Deaf ones, listen,

and blind ones, look, in order to see.

19 Who is blind except my servant?

Or deaf like my messenger I send?

Who is blind like Meshullam,

or blind like the servant of Yahweh?

20 You see much but do not observe;

ears are open, but do not hear.

21 Yahweh is pleased on account of his righteousness,

he gives praise to the law and makes it glorious.

22 But it is a people robbed and plundered,

all of them trapped in pits

and in houses of prisoners held captive.

They have become a plunder with no rescue,

despoiled, and no one says, ‘Give back!’

23 Who among you will give ear to this,

give heed and hear in the future?

24 Who gave Jacob to the robber,

and Israel to the looters?

Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned,

and were not willing to walk in his ways,

and did not obey his law?

25 And he poured out on him the heat of his nose

and the violence of war,

and its flames encircled, yet he did not know,

and it consumed him, but he did not take it to heart.