Isaiah 42

1 Here! servant my [whom] I support him chosen one my [whom] it is pleased with self my I have put spirit my on him justice to the nations he will bring forth.

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.

2 Not he will cry out and not he will lift up and not he will make heard in the street voice his.

He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

3 A reed crushed not he will break and a wick dim not he will extinguish it to faithfulness he will bring forth justice.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench, but he will bring forth justice in truth.

4 Not he will grow dim and not he will be crushed until he will establish on the earth justice and for instruction his islands they will wait.

He will not fail nor be discouraged till he has set justice in the earth. And in his name Gentiles will hope.

5 Thus he says God - Yahweh [who] created the heavens and [who] stretched out them [who] spread out the earth and produce its [who] gives breath to the people on it and spirit to [those who] walk on it.

Thus says God, Jehovah, 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 those who walk in it,

6 I Yahweh I have called you in righteousness and I may take hold on hand your and I may watch over you and I may make you a covenant of [the] people a light of [the] nations.

I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles,

7 To open eyes blind to bring out from prison prisoner[s] from a house of imprisonment [those who] dwell of darkness.

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

8 I [am] Yahweh that [is] name my and glory my to another not I will give and praise my to images.

I am Jehovah. That is my name, and I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven images.

9 The former [things] there! they have come and new [things] I [am] about to tell before they will spring up I will cause to hear [them] you.

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.

10 Sing to Yahweh a song new praise his from [the] end of the earth O [those who] go down the sea and what fills it O islands and inhabitants their.

Sing to Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Let them lift up [the] wilderness and cities its [the] villages [where] it dwells Kedar let them shout for joy [the] inhabitants of Sela from [the] top of [the] mountains let them cry aloud.

Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.

12 Let them give to Yahweh glory and praise his in the islands let them declare.

Let them give glory to Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 Yahweh like warrior he will go forth like a man of war he will stir up zeal he will raise a war-cry also he will raise a battle-shout over enemies his he will prevail.

Jehovah 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.

14 I have been silent from a long time I have kept silent I have restrained myself like [woman] giving birth I groan I puff and I may pant together.

I have for a long time held my peace. I have been still, and refrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will lay waste mountains and hills and all vegetation their I will dry up and I will make rivers islands and pools I will dry up.

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.

16 And I will lead blind [people] by a way [which] not they have known by paths [which] not they have known I will guide them I will make [the] dark place before them light and rough places level ground these [are] the things [which] I will do them and not I will abandon them.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

17 They will be turned back backwards they will be ashamed shame those [who] trust in idol those [who] say to a molten image you [are] god our.

They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods.

18 O deaf [people] listen and O blind [people] look to see.

Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 Who? [is] blind that except servant my and deaf like messenger my [whom] I will send who? [is] blind like [one] in a covenant and blind like [the] servant of Yahweh.

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 Jehovah's servant?

20 (You have seen *Q(K)*) many [things] and not you keep [them] they are open ears and not he listens.

Thou see many things, but thou do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear.

21 Yahweh he was pleased for [the] sake of righteousness his he will make great [the] law so he may make [it] glorious.

It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

22 And it [is] a people despoiled and plundered they are trapped in holes all of them and in houses of imprisonment they are hidden they have become spoil and there not [is] a deliverer plunder and there not [is one who] says bring [it] back.

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.

23 Who? among you will he give ear to this will he pay attention? and he may listen? to afterwards.

Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will hearken and hear for the time to come?

24 Who? has he given (to plunder *Q(K)*) Jacob and Israel to despoilers ¿ not [was it] Yahweh whom we have sinned to him and not they were willing in ways his to walk and not they listened to law his.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah? He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, nor were they obedient to his law.

25 And he poured out on it rage anger his and [the] fierceness of battle and it set ablaze it from round about and not it knew and it burned it and not it put [it] on heart.

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.