LEB ISA chapter 42

The Mission of Yahweh’s Servant

I have[fn] my spirit on him;
- he will bring justice forth to the nations.
- 2  and make his voice heard in the street.
- 3  and he not will extinguish a dim wick.
  - He will bring justice forth in[fn] faithfulness.
- 4  and he will not be broken
until he has established justice in the earth.
- And the coastlands wait for his teaching.
- 5  who created the heavens
and stretched them out,
- who spread out the earth and its offspring,
who gives breath to the people upon it
- and spirit to those who walk in it.
- 6 am Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you;
and I have given you as a covenant of the people,
- as a light of the nations,
- 7 the blind eyes, to bring the prisoner out from the dungeon,
  - those who sit in darkness from the house of imprisonment.
8 I am Yahweh; that is my name,and I do not give my glory to another,
- nor[fn] my praise to the idols.
- 9  and I declare new things.
  - I[fn] them to you before they sprout up.”

A Song of Praise to Yahweh

you[fn] who go down to the sea and that which fills it,
- the coastlands and their inhabitants.
- 11 the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
- let them shout loudly from the[fn] of the mountains.
- 12 [fn] glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands.
- 13  he stirs up zeal like a man of war.
He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout;
- he prevails against his foes.
- 14  I have kept silent;
I have restrained myself like one giving birth;
- I will moan, pant, and gasp together.
- 15  and I will cause all their herbage to wither;
and I will make rivers like islands,
- and I will cause pools to dry up.
- 16  I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known.
I will make darkness[fn] into light
- and rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
- and I will not forsake them.
- 17  they shall be[fn]
those who trust in an image,
- who say to a cast image, “You are our gods.”

Blind and Deaf Israel

Who is blind like the one who is repaid
- or[fn] blind like the servant of Yahweh?
- 20 things, but[fn] you do not observe. His ears are open, but[fn] he does not hear.
- 21 he showed his teaching to be great and proved it to be glorious.
- 22 [fn] this is a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment.
They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves;
- like booty, and there is no one who says, “Restore!”
- 23  will listen attentively and listen, for[fn]
- 24 [fn] and Israel to those who plunder?

Was it not Yahweh, against whom[fn] we have sinned?

And they were not willing to walk in his ways,
- and they would not[fn] his law.
- 25 [fn] he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war.
And it set him afire all around, but[fn] he did not understand;[fn]
- and it burned him, but[fn] he did not take it to heart.

42:? Literally “given”

42:? Or “to”

42:8 Or “and”

42:8 Literally “cause to hear”

42:8 Or “those”

42:8 Literally “head”

42:8 Or “establish”

42:8 Literally “before their face”

42:8 Literally “ashamed with shame”

42:8 Or “and”

42:8 Or “And”

42:8 Literally “later”

42:8 The reading tradition (Qere) has “as plunder”

42:8 Or “this”

42:8 Literally “hear”

42:8 Or “and”

42:8 Or “did not know”

42:8 Or “and”

LEB ISA Chapter 42