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42 : 1 Beholdmy 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 nations.
42 : 2 He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,or make it heard in the street;
42 : 3 a bruised reed he will not break,and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;he will faithfully bring forth justice.
42 : 4 He will not grow faint or be discouragedtill he has established justice in the earth;andthe coastlands wait for his law.
42 : 5 Thus says God, theLord,who created the heavensand stretched them out,who spread out the earth and what comes from it,who gives breath to the people on itand spirit to those who walk in it:
42 : 6 I am theLord;I have called youin righteousness;I will take you by the hand and keep you;I will give youas a covenant for the people,a light for the nations,
42 : 7 to open the eyes that are blind,to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,from the prison those who sit in darkness.
42 : 8 I am theLord; that is my name;my glory I give to no other,nor my praise to carved idols.
42 : 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass,and new things I now declare;before they spring forthI tell you of them.
42 : 10 Sing to theLorda new song,his praise from the end of the earth,you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,the coastlands and their inhabitants.
42 : 11 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,the villages thatKedar inhabits;let the habitants ofSela sing for joy,let them shout from the top of the mountains.
42 : 12 Let them give glory to theLord,and declare his praise inthe coastlands.
42 : 13 TheLordgoes out like a mighty man,like a man of warhe stirs up his zeal;he cries out,he shouts aloud,he shows himself mighty against his foes.
42 : 14 For a long time I have held my peace;I have kept still and restrained myself;now I will cry outlike a woman in labor;I will gasp and pant.
42 : 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills,and dry up all their vegetation;I will turn the rivers into islands,and dry up the pools.
42 : 16 And I will lead the blindin a way that they do not know,in paths that they have not knownI will guide them.I will turn the darkness before them into light,the rough places into level ground.These are the things I do,and I do not forsake them.
42 : 17 They are turned back and utterly put to shame,who trust in carved idols,who say to metal images,You are our gods.
42 : 18 Hear, you deaf,and look, you blind, that you may see!
42 : 19 Who is blind but my servant,or deaf as my messenger whom I send?Who is blind as my dedicated one,or blind as the servant of theLord?
42 : 20 He sees many things, but does not observe them;his ears are open, but he does not hear.
42 : 21 TheLordwas pleased, for his righteousness' sake,to magnify his law and make it glorious.
42 : 22 But this is a people plundered and looted;they are all of them trapped in holesand hidden in prisons;they have become plunder with none to rescue,spoil with none to say,Restore!
42 : 23 Who among you will give ear to this,will attend and listen for the time to come?
42 : 24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,and Israel to the plunderers?Was it not theLord, against whom we have sinned,in whose ways they would not walk,and whose law they would not obey?
42 : 25 So he poured on him the heat of his angerand the might of battle;it set him on fire all around,but he did not understand;it burned him up,but he did not take it to heart.