Thematic Bible
Isaiah 42:1 (show verse)
this is My Chosen One;
I have put My Spirit on Him;
He will bring justice
Isaiah 42:2 (show verse)
or make His voice heard in the streets.
Isaiah 42:3 (show verse)
and He will not put out a smoldering wick;
He will faithfully bring justice.
Isaiah 42:4 (show verse)
until He has established justice on earth.
The islands will wait for His instruction.”
Isaiah 42:5 (show verse)
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it
and life
Isaiah 42:6 (show verse)
for a righteous purpose,
and I will hold You by Your hand.
I will keep You and appoint You
to be a covenant for the people
and a light to the nations,
Isaiah 42:7 (show verse)
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
Isaiah 42:8 (show verse)
I will not give My glory to another
or My praise to idols.
Isaiah 42:9 (show verse)
Now I declare new events;
I announce them to you before they occur.”
Isaiah 42:10 (show verse)
sing His praise from the ends of the earth,
you who go down to the sea with all that fills it,
you islands with your
Isaiah 42:11 (show verse)
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.
Isaiah 42:12 (show verse)
and declare His praise in the islands.
Isaiah 42:13 (show verse)
He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.
He shouts, He roars aloud,
He prevails over His enemies.
Isaiah 42:14 (show verse)
I have been quiet and restrained Myself.
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,
gasping breathlessly.
Isaiah 42:15 (show verse)
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.
Isaiah 42:16 (show verse)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them
and rough places into level ground.
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:17 (show verse)
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!
Isaiah 42:18 (show verse)
Look, you blind, so that you may see.
Isaiah 42:19 (show verse)
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
Isaiah 42:20 (show verse)
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”
Isaiah 42:21 (show verse)
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.
Isaiah 42:22 (show verse)
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
Isaiah 42:23 (show verse)
Let him listen and obey in the future.
Isaiah 42:24 (show verse)
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.
Isaiah 42:25 (show verse)
and the power of war.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he paid no attention.