The Servant’s Mission
this is my chosen one;42:1 Is 41:8–9; Lk 9:35; 23:35; 1Pt 2:4,6 I delight in him.42:1 Mt 3:17; 17:5; Mk 1:11; Lk 3:22; 2Pt 1:17
I have put my Spirit on him;42:1 Nm 11:16–17; 1Sm 16:13; Ps 33:6; 139:7; Is 11:2; 40:7; 59:21; Lk 4:18–21
2He will not cry out or shout
or make his voice heard in the streets.
3He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not put out a smoldering wick;
he will faithfully bring justice.
4He will not grow weak or be discouraged
until he has established justice on earth.
The coasts and islands will wait for his instruction.”42:4 Is 11:11; 24:15; 42:10,12; 49:1; 51:5; 60:9; 66:19
5This is what God, the Lord, says —
who gives breath to the people on it
6“I am the Lord. I have called you
for a righteous purpose,42:6 Or you by my righteousness; lit you in righteousness42:6 Is 5:7,16; 9:7; 11:4–5; 32:1; 41:2; 45:8,13; 51:5–8; 56:1; 60:21; Jr 23:5–6
I will watch over you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people42:6 Is 49:8
and a light to the nations,42:6 Is 49:6
7in order to open blind eyes,42:7 Ac 26:17–18
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,42:7 Is 35:5; 49:9; 61:1; Heb 2:14–15
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
8I am the Lord. That is my name,
or my praise to idols.
9The past events have indeed happened.
I announce them to you before they occur.”
A Song of Praise
sing his praise from the ends of the earth,
you coasts and islands with your42:10 Lit their inhabitants.
11Let the desert and its cities shout,
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;42:11 Is 16:1
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
12Let them give glory to the Lord
and declare his praise in the coasts and islands.
13The Lord advances like a warrior;
He shouts, he roars aloud,
he prevails over his enemies.
14“I have kept silent from ages past;
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,42:14 Is 13:8
gasping breathlessly.
15I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them42:16 Eph 5:8
This is what I will do for them,
17They will be turned back and utterly ashamed —
those who trust in an idol
and say to a cast image,
Israel’s Blindness and Deafness
18“Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.42:18 Is 35:5
or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like my dedicated one,42:19 Hb obscure
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
20Though seeing many things,42:20 Alt Hb tradition reads You see many things; you pay no attention.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”42:20 Rm 2:21–23
21Because of his righteousness, the Lord was pleased
to magnify his instruction and make it glorious.
22But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
23Who among you will hear this?
Let him listen and obey in the future.
24Who gave Jacob to the robber,42:24 Lit to loot
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord?
Have we not sinned against him?
They were not willing to walk in his ways,
and they would not listen to his instruction.
25So he poured out his furious anger
and the power of war on Jacob.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
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