Isa 42 | ABEn | STEP | Jacob, my child, I shall take hold of him. Israel, my chosen, [ 2 favorably received 3 him 1 my soul]. I have put my spirit upon him, [ 2 judgment 3 to the 4 nations 1 he shall bring forth].

Isaiah 42

CHAPTER 42 The Servant of The LORD

1 Jacob, my child, I shall take hold of him. Israel, my chosen, [²favorably received ³him ¹my soul]. I have put my spirit upon him, [²judgment ³to the ⁴nations ¹he shall bring forth]. 2 He shall not cry out, nor shall he send up his voice, nor shall [²be heard ³outside ¹his voice]. 3 A reed being crushed he will not break, and [²flax ¹smoking] he will not extinguish; but to validity he will bring forth judgment. 4 He shall illuminate, and shall not be devastated until whenever he should set [²upon ³the ⁴earth ¹judgment]. And upon his name nations shall hope. 5 Thus 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. 6 I 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; 7 to 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. 8 I am the lord God; this is my name; [³my glory ⁴to another ¹I will not ²give], nor my virtues to the carvings. 9 The 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.

A Song of Praise

10 Sing to the lord [²hymn ¹a new]! 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. 11 Be glad, O wilderness and her towns, properties, and the ones dwelling in Kedar! [⁴shall be glad ¹The ones ²dwelling in ³the rock]. From the tip of the mountains they shall yell. 12 They shall give [²to God ¹glory]; [²his virtues ³in ⁴the ⁵islands ¹they shall report]. 13 The lord God of the forces shall go forth, and shall break war. He shall rouse zeal, and shall yell against his enemies with strength. 14 I 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. 15 I will make [⁴desolate ¹mountains ²and ³hills], and [²all ³their grass ¹will dry out]. And I will make rivers into islands, and marshes to dry land. 16 And I will lead the blind in the way which they knew not, and [⁴roads ⁵which ⁶they had not ⁷seen ³to tread ¹I will cause ²them]. 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. 17 But 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.

The Blindness of Israel

18 O deaf-mutes, hear! and O blind, look up to behold! 19 And who is blind, but my servants? And who are deaf-mutes, but the ones dominating them? Who is blind as the one receiving? even [⁴were blinded ¹the ²servants ³of God]. 20 You beheld many times, and watched not; opening the ears, and heard not. 21 The lord God willed that he should be justified, and should magnify praise. 22 And 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! 23 Who among you shall give ear to these things which shall be heard for the things coming about? 24 Who gave [²for ³ravaging ¹Jacob], and Israel to the ones plundering? Was it not God to whom they sinned? And they did not want [²in ³his ways ¹to go], nor to hear his law. 25 And he brought upon them the anger of his rage; and [²strengthened ³against them ¹the war] and the ones burning them round about; and [³did not ⁴know ¹each ²of them], nor put it unto their soul.