Isaiah 42
42:1Jacob, my child, I shall take hold of him. Israel, my chosen, my soul favorably received him. I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.
42:2He shall not cry out, nor shall he send up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard outside.
42:3A reed being crushed he will not break, and smoking flax he will not extinguish; but to validity he will bring forth judgment.
42:4He shall illuminate, and shall not be devastated until whenever he should set judgment upon the earth. And upon his name nations shall hope.
42:5Thus says the lord God, the one making the heaven, and pitching it; solidifying the earth, and the things in it; and giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to the ones treading it.
42:6I the lord God called you in righteousness, and I shall hold your hand, and I will strengthen you; and I gave you for a covenant of a race, for a light of nations;
42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to lead out of bonds ones being tied; from out of the house of prison also ones sitting in darkness.
42:8I am the lord God; this is my name; I will not give my glory to another, nor my virtues to the carvings.
42:9The things from the beginning, behold, they have come, and the new things which I shall announce, even before the announcing, it was made manifest to you.
42:10Sing to the lord a new hymn! Glorify his name from the uttermost part of the earth! O ones going down into the sea, and sailing it; the islands, and the ones dwelling in them.
42:11Be glad, O wilderness and her towns, properties, and the ones dwelling in Kedar! The ones dwelling in the rock shall be glad. From the tip of the mountains they shall yell.
42:12They shall give glory to God; they shall report his virtues in the islands.
42:13The lord God of the forces shall go forth, and shall break war. He shall rouse zeal, and shall yell against his enemies with strength.
42:14I kept silent from the eon; shall I also continually keep silent and endure? As the woman giving birth perseveres, I will now amaze and dry out at the same time.
42:15I will make mountains and hills desolate, and will dry out all their grass. And I will make rivers into islands, and marshes to dry land.
42:16And I will lead the blind in the way which they knew not, and I will cause them to tread roads which they had not seen. I will make for them darkness into light, and crooked into straight. These are the things I will do to them, and I shall not abandon them.
42:17But they were turned into the rear. You should be ashamed with shame, O ones relying upon the carvings, O ones saying to the molten images, You are our gods.
42:18O deaf-mutes, hear! and O blind, look up to behold!
42:19And who is blind, but my servants? And who are deaf-mutes, but the ones dominating them? Who is blind as the one receiving? even the servants of God were blinded.
42:20You beheld many times, and watched not; opening the ears, and heard not.
42:21The lord God willed that he should be justified, and should magnify praise.
42:22And I beheld, and it came to pass the people were being despoiled and plundered; for the snare is in the storerooms everywhere, and in the houses together where they hid them; they became for plunder, and there was not the one rescuing one seized; and there was not the one saying, Give back!
42:23Who among you shall give ear to these things which shall be heard for the things coming about?
42:24Who gave Jacob for ravaging, and Israel to the ones plundering? Was it not God to whom they sinned? And they did not want to go in his ways, nor to hear his law.
42:25And he brought upon them the anger of his rage; and the war strengthened against them and the ones burning them round about; and each of them did not know, nor put it unto their soul.