Isaiah 42

¹ “ Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,

² He will not shout,

³ He won’t break a bruised reed.

⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged,

⁵ God the LORD,

⁶ “ I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness.

⁷ to open the blind eyes,

⁸ “ I am the LORD.

⁹ Behold, the former things have happened

¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song,

¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

¹² Let them give glory to the LORD,

¹³ The LORD will go out like a mighty man. Yes, he will shout aloud.

¹⁴ “I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

¹⁵ I will destroy mountains and hills,

¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.

¹⁷ “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods, ’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

¹⁸ “ Hear, you deaf,

¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant?

²⁰ You see many things, but don’t observe.

²¹ It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness ’ sake, to magnify the law

²² But this is a robbed and plundered people.

²³ Who is there among you who will give ear to this?

²⁴ Who gave Jacob as plunder, Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned?

²⁵ Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,