Isaiah 42

1 look! servant/slave my to grasp in/on/with him chosen my to accept soul my to give: put spirit my upon him justice to/for nation to come out: send

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

2 not to cry and not to lift: loud and not to hear: hear in/on/with outside voice his

He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

3 branch: stem to crush not to break and flax faint not to quench her to/for truth: faithful to come out: send justice

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

4 not to grow dim and not to crush till to set: make in/on/with land: country/planet justice and to/for instruction his coastland to wait: hope

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

5 thus to say [the] God LORD to create [the] heaven and to stretch them to beat [the] land: country/planet and offspring her to give: give breath to/for people upon her and spirit to/for to go: walk in/on/with her

This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

6 I LORD to call: call to you in/on/with righteousness and to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand your and to watch you and to give: give you to/for covenant people to/for light nation

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

7 to/for to open eye blind to/for to come out: send from locksmith prisoner from house: home prison to dwell darkness

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

8 I LORD he/she/it name my and glory my to/for another not to give: give and praise my to/for idol

I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.

9 [the] first: previous behold to come (in): come and new I to tell in/on/with before to spring to hear: proclaim [obj] you

Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

10 to sing to/for LORD song new praise his from end [the] land: country/planet to go down [the] sea and fullness his coastland and to dwell their

Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

11 to lift: loud wilderness and city his village to dwell Kedar to sing to dwell Sela from head: top mountain: mount to cry aloud

Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

12 to set: put to/for LORD glory and praise his in/on/with coastland to tell

Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.

13 LORD like/as mighty man to come out: come like/as man battle to rouse jealousy to shout also to cry upon enemy his to prevail

The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

14 be silent from forever: antiquity be quiet to refrain like/as to beget to groan to pant and to long for unitedness

“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

15 to destroy mountain: mount and hill and all vegetation their to wither and to set: make river to/for coastland and pool to wither

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

16 and to go: take blind in/on/with way: direction not to know in/on/with path not to know to tread them to set: make darkness to/for face: before their to/for light and crooked place to/for plain these [the] word: thing to make: do them and not to leave: forsake them

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

17 to turn back be ashamed shame [the] to trust in/on/with idol [the] to say to/for liquid you(m. p.) God our

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

18 [the] deaf to hear: hear and [the] blind to look to/for to see: see

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

19 who? blind that if: except if: except servant/slave my and deaf like/as messenger my to send: depart who? blind like/as to ally and blind like/as servant/slave LORD

Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

20 (to see: see *Q(K)*) many and not to keep: look at to open ear and not to hear: hear

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

21 LORD to delight in because righteousness his to magnify instruction and be glorious

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

22 and he/she/it people to plunder and to plunder to ensnare in/on/with cavern all their and in/on/with house: home prison to hide to be to/for plunder and nothing to rescue plunder and nothing to say to return: rescue

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

23 who? in/on/with you to listen this to listen and to hear: hear to/for back

Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

24 who? to give: give (to/for plunder *Q(K)*) Jacob and Israel to/for to plunder not LORD this to sin to/for him and not be willing in/on/with way: conduct his to go: walk and not to hear: obey in/on/with instruction his

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

25 and to pour: pour upon him rage face: anger his and strength battle and to kindle him from around and not to know and to burn: burn in/on/with him and not to set: consider upon heart

So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.