Esaias 42
1 Sjå min tenar som eg styd, min utvalde som eg elskar! Honom gjev eg anden min, rett han førar ut til folki.
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
2 Ikkje mun han ropa, skrika, ei på gata bruka mælet.
He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
3 Brostne røyrstrå ei han bryt, sløkkjer ei den veik som gløder, trufast ber han retten ut.
He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
4 Ei han veiknar, ei han brotnar fyrr han rett på jord fær setja, øyer ventar på hans lov.
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
5 Soleis talar Herren Gud, som hev himmeln skapt og utspent, jordi lagt med vokstrar på, gjeve folk på henne ande, andedrag åt deim der ferdast:
God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
6 Eg, Herren, hev deg i rettferd kalla, eg tok deg i handi, eg varar deg og gjer deg til folkepakt og til ljos for heidningar,
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
7 til å opna blinde augo, føra fangar ut or fengsel deim som sit i myrker, or fangehus.
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
8 Eg er Herren, det er mitt namn, ingen annan fær mi æra, ikkje bilæti min pris.
I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
9 Sjå, dei fyrste ting er komne, og eg meldar nye ting; endå fyrr dei upp hev runne, eg forkynner dykker deim.
See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
10 Syng ny song for Herren, lova han til heimsens endar! Sjøfolk og du havsens myrja, øyland og dei folk der bur!
Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
11 Heidi syng med sine byar, hytteby der Kedar bur. Dei som bur på berget, jublar, ropar ned frå høgste nut.
Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
12 Dei skal gjeva Herren æra og hans pris til øyland bera.
Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.
13 Ut gjeng Herren som ei kjempa, eggjar harmen som ein stridsmann, herrop lyfter han og skrik, ter si magt mot sine motmenn.
The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
14 Stilt eg heve tagt so lenge, mållaus hev eg halde meg. No eg styn som viv i barnsnaud, etter anden syp og pæsar.
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
15 Berg og haug eg legg i øyde, svider av alt grønt på deim, elvar gjer eg um til øyer, sjøar let eg turkast upp.
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
16 Blinde ukjend veg eg fører, so dei fer ukjende stigar, myrkt gjer eg til ljost for deim, bakkeland til flate sletta. Dette er det eg vil gjera og slett ikkje lata vera.
And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
17 Vika lyt storleg skjemmast dei som lit på bilæt-gud, og til støypte bilæt segjer: «De er våre gudar.»
They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
18 Dauve, høyr! Blinde, upp med augo! Sjå!
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
19 Kven er blind, um ei min tenar, dauv som sendebodet mitt? Kven er blind som venen min? Kven er blind som Herrens tenar?
Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
20 Mangt du såg, men gøymer ikkje, han fekk øyra upp, men høyrer ei.
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
21 For si rettferd skuld vil Herren gjera lovi stor og herleg.
It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
22 Men det er eit plundra folk, herja folk, alle bundne sit i hol og i fangehusi løynde. Herfang er dei, og hev ingen frelsar, ran, og ingen segjer: «Gjev det att!»
But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
23 Kven av dykk gjev gaum på dette, lyder på og høyrer sidan?
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
24 Kven gav Jakob burt til ran og til ransmenn Israel utan Herren som me synda mot, som hans vegar dei ei fara vilde og ei høyra på hans lov?
Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.
25 So rende han yver deim sin heite harm og ein veldug krig. Det ikring deim loga, men dei skyna inkje, brende deim, men dei la ikkje det på hjarta.
For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.
