Isaiah 42

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1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul. I will put my spirit upon him, and declare judgment to the Gentiles;
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice to be heard in the street;
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; will execute judgment on the truth;
4 not fail nor be discouraged, till on the ground does not approve of the court, and for his law isles shall wait.

5 Thus says the Lord God, Creator of the heavens and stretched, spread out the earth and its giving breath to the people upon it and spirit to them that walk on it.
6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners from prison, and those who sit in darkness - from prison.
8 I am the Lord, that - by my name, and I will not give my glory to another, neither my praise to graven images.
9 Here, [foretold] came true before, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you.
10 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, the islands and their inhabitants.
eleven Exalted voice of wilderness and its cities, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 The Lord will come as a mighty man, as a man of war: stir up jealousy; will call and shout aloud, and shall prevail against his enemies.
14 For a long time I kept silent, been still and restrained; Now I will cry like a woman in travail, I will destroy and devour everything;
15 waste mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools;
16 and I will lead the blind by a way they knew not the ways I will guide them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked ways - straight: that is what I will do for them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back and be greatly ashamed trust in graven images, speaking to the molten images, Ye are our gods. "

18 Hear, ye deaf, and look, the blind to see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is blind as the servant of the Lord?
20 You've seen a lot, but did not notice; They are opening the ears, but not heard.
21 Lord was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness, to magnify and glorify the law.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; all of them are connected in dungeons and hidden in prisons; became a prey, and no one delivers; robbed, and no one says, 'Restore'!
23 How many of you give ear to this, will attend and listened to it for the future?
24 Who gave Jacob to destruction and Israel to robbers? if, against whom we have sinned, Lord? They would not walk in his ways, and have not listened to his law.
25 And he poured out on them the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of war: it set him on fire all around, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

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