Isaiah

¹ “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul is well‑pleased. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.

² Nor make His voice heard in the street.

³ And a faintly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will bring forth justice in truth.

⁴ Until He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”

⁵ Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,

⁶ I will also take hold of You by the hand and guard You, And I will give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations,

⁷ To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who inhabit darkness from the prison.

⁸ I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.

⁹ Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I cause you to hear them.”

¹⁰ Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, as well as its fullness. You coastlands, and those who inhabit them.

¹¹ The villages where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

¹² And declare His praise in the coastlands.

¹³ He will awaken His zeal like a man of war. He will make a loud shout, indeed, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.

¹⁴ “I have kept silent for a long time; I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan; I will both gasp and pant.

¹⁵ And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the pools of waters.

¹⁶ In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not forsake them.”

¹⁷ Who trust in graven images, Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”

¹⁸ And look, you blind, that you may see.

¹⁹ Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of Yahweh?

²⁰ Your ears are open, but none hears.

²¹ That He make the law great and majestic.

²² All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a plunder with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, “Have them return!”

²³ Who will give heed and hear hereafter?

²⁴ Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

²⁵ And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not know it; And it burned him, but he did not set it upon his heart.