KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 42
The office of Christ, graced with meekness and constancy. An exhortation to praise Jehovah for his gospel.
1Behold My Servant; I will support Him; My Elect in whom My soul is pleased! I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth judgment to the nations.
2He shall not cry, and not lift up, and not cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoldering wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth judgment to truth.
4He shall not grow dim and not be crushed until He has set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for His Law.
5So says Jehovah God, creating the heavens and stretching them out; spreading out the earth and its produce, giving breath to the people on it, and spirit to those walking in it.
6I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold up Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
7to open the eyes of blind ones, to lead out the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the house of restraint.
8I am Jehovah; that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another, and not My praise to engraved images.
9Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I reveal new things before they spring forth, I cause you to hear.
10Sing a new song to Jehovah; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go to sea, and all that is in it; the isles and those living in them
11Lift up the wilderness and its cities, lift up the villages where Kedar lives. Lift up the voice of those dwelling in the rock; shout from the top of the mountains.
12They give glory to Jehovah and declare His praise in the isles.
13Jehovah goes out as a mighty One; and He stirs up His zeal like a man of war; He shall shout, yea, roar; He shall act mightily on His enemies.
14I have been silent; I was quiet and refrained Myself; I will groan like one giving birth; I will pant and gasp at once.
15I will make mountains and hills become a waste, and dry up all their plants. And I will set rivers for isles, and I will dry up pools.
16And I will make blind ones go by a way that they did not know. I will make them go down into paths they never knew. I will put darkness into light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things to them and do not forsake them;
17they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame, those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.
18Or deaf ones, hear; and blind ones, look to see!
19Who is a blind one but My servant? Or a deaf one, as My messenger whom I send? Who is a blind one as he who is at peace, and is a blind one as Jehovah's servant?
20You see many things, but do not observe; your ears are open, but do not hear.
21Jehovah is delighted for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.
22But it is a people robbed and plundered; they shall all be snared in holes; they were hidden in houses of restraint. They were for plunder, and not one delivers; a prey, and not one says, Return!
23Who among you will give ear to this, and will listen and hear for the time to come?
24Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Law.
25And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.
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