Isa 42
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Behold, 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 Gentiles.
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He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
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A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he
will bring forth justice in truth.
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He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the
isles shall wait for his law.
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Thus says God YHWH, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread
abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people
upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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I, YHWH, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep
you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that
sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
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I am YHWH, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise
to graven images.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they
spring forth I tell you of them.
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Sing to YHWH a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you that go down
to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and its inhabitants.
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Let the wilderness and its cities lift up [their voice], the villages that
Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top
of the mountains.
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Let them give glory to YHWH, and declare his praise in the islands.
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YHWH will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war:
he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.
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I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will
I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
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I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make
the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
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And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not
will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight.
These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
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They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven
images, that say to molten images, You are our gods.
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Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
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Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as
he who is at peace [with me], and blind as YHWH`s servant?
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You see many things, but you observe not; his ears are open, but he hears not.
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It pleased YHWH, for his righteousness` sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
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But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and
they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil,
and none says, Restore.
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Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for
the time to come?
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Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not YHWH? he against whom
we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient
to his law.
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Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle;
and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid
it not to heart.