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¹ Look, my slave, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.² He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.³ A bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his instructions.

⁵ Thus says God Yahweh, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those that walk therein:⁶ I, Yahweh, 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 Gentiles;⁷ to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.⁸ I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory I will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.⁹ Look, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things; before they spring forth I tell you of them.¹⁰ Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.¹² Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

¹³ Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.¹⁴ I have held my peace for a long time; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] I will cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.¹⁵ I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.¹⁶ And I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know I will lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.¹⁷ They shall be turned back, they shall be completely put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say to molten images, You are our gods.

¹⁸ Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.¹⁹ Who is blind, but my slave? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace [with me], and blind as Yahweh's slave?²⁰ You have seen many things, but you don't retain; his ears are open, but he doesn't hear.²¹ It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.²² But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.²³ Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will listen and hear for the time to come?²⁴ Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.²⁵ Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he didn't lay it to heart.