MKJV - Isaiah - 42

42:1  Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring out judgment to the nations.

42:2  He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.

42:3  A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring out judgment to truth.

42:4  He shall not fail nor be discouraged until He has set judgment in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His law.

42:5  So says Jehovah God, He who created the heavens and stretched them out, spreading out the earth and its offspring; He who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

42:6  I the LORD have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;

42:7  to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

42:8  I am the LORD; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

42:9  Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they happen, I cause you to hear.

42:10  Sing to the LORD a new song; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and its fullness; coasts and their peoples.

42:11  Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Kedar dwells. Let the dwellers of the rock sing, let them shout from the mountain tops.

42:12  Give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the coastlands.

42:13  The LORD goes out as a warrior, He stirs up zeal like a man of wars; He shouts, yea, roars; He overcomes His enemies.

42:14  I have kept silence from forever; I have been still and refrained Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in pangs of labor, I will pant and gasp at once.

42:15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up the pools.

42:16  And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.

42:17  They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You are our gods.

42:18  Hear, deaf ones; and blind ones look to see.

42:19  Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?

42:20  You see many things, but do not pay attention. Your ears are open, but not any hears.

42:21  The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness sake; He will magnify the Law and make it honorable.

42:22  But this is a people robbed and spoiled; all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison-houses; they have been taken, and none delivers them; a prize, and none says, Give back.

42:23  Who among you will hear this? He will listen and hear for the time to come?

42:24  Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? Did not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, nor did they obey His law.

42:25  So He has poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle. And it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it to heart.