Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 42

Here is my — I . My , in whom I take deep delight. I have placed on him; he will bring to the .He will not or raise his voice, or make himself heard in the streets.A — he will not snap it. A — he will not blow it out. He will bring about justice.He himself will not until he has set justice in place across the earth. Even the distant wait for his .This is what — says, the one who created the heavens and , who spread out the earth and everything that grows from it, who gives to the people on it and life to those who walk on it:“I, Yahweh, have . I have grasped you by the hand. I have shaped you, and I have set you as a , a —to open , to bring prisoners out of the , to free those sitting in from their cells.”“ — that is my name. My I will not give to another, or my praise to . — look, they came about. Now I am declaring . Before they even , I am letting you hear them.”Sing a to Yahweh, his praise from the — you who go down to the sea and everything in it, you coastlands and everyone who lives there.Let the desert and its towns raise their voices, the settlements where lives. Let the people of sing out; let them shout from the mountaintops.Let them to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands.Yahweh marches out like a . Like a , he stirs up his fury. He roars — yes, he shouts a . He shows himself mighty against his enemies.“For a long time I have . I have held myself back and said nothing. Now I — gasping, panting, all at once.”I will mountains and hills and dry up all their green growth. I will turn rivers into dry land and drain the pools dry.I will lead by a road they did not know; down paths they have never traveled, I will guide them. I will turn their darkness into light before them and . These are the things I will do — I will not leave them undone.Those who trust in , who say to , ‘You are our gods’ — they will be driven back in .Listen, you who are ! Look and see, you who are blind!Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf like the I send? Who is blind like , blind like the servant of Yahweh?You have seen many things but . Your ears are open, but you hear nothing.Yahweh was pleased, for the sake of his own , to make his great and glorious.But this is a people , all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in . They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, loot with no one to say, ‘Give it back!’Who among you will listen to this? Who will and hear what is coming?Who handed Jacob over to the looters, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not Yahweh, ? They refused to walk in his ways; they would not listen to his .So he poured out on them, the violence of war. It set them on fire from every side, but they did not understand. It consumed them, but they .