[1] Behold, my servant, 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 will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will
he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth. [4] He will not fail
nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles
shall wait for his law. [5] Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the
heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that
which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit
to those who 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 who sit in darkness out
of the prison-house. [8] I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I
not give to another, neither my praise to engraved images. [9] Behold, the
former things have happened, and new things do I declare. 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 who go down to the sea, and all that
is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it. [11] Let the wilderness
and the cities of it 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 long time held my peace;
I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I 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] I will bring the blind by a way
that they don`t know; in paths that they don`t know will I lead them; I
will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These
things will I do, and I will not forsake them. [17] They shall be turned
back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in engraved images, who
tell molten images, You are our gods. [18] Hear, you deaf; and look, you
blind, that you may see. [19] Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my
messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as
Yahweh`s servant? [20] You see many things, but don`t observe. 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; they are all of them 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 who will give ear to
this? who will listen and hear for the time to come? [24] Who gave Jacob
for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn`t 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.
