Thematic Bible

Isaiah 42:1

Behold my servant, I will hold fast in him; my chosen, my soul delighted; I gave my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

Isaiah 42:2

He shall not cry, and be shall not lift up, and he shall not cause his voice to be heard without

Isaiah 42:3

A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

Isaiah 42:4

He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:

Isaiah 42:5

Thus said God Jehovah, creating the heavens and stretching them out; and spreading out the earth and its productions; giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going upon it:

Isaiah 42:6

I Jehovah called thee in justice, and I will hold by thy hand, and I will guard thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for the light of the nations,

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth the bound out of prison, those sitting in darkness out of the house of the prison.

Isaiah 42:8

I Jehovah, this my name: and my glory I will not give to another, and my praise to carved images.

Isaiah 42:9

The first things, behold, they came, and new things I announce: before they shall spring up I will cause you to hear.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the extremity of the earth, ye going down to the sea, and its fulness; the isles and their inhabitants.

Isaiah 42:11

The desert and its cities shall lift up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit: they inhabiting the rock shall shout for joy, from the head of the mountains they shall shout for joy.

Isaiah 42:12

They shall set glory to Jehovah, and they shall announce' his praise in the islands.

Isaiah 42:13

Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.

Isaiah 42:14

I was silent of old; I will be still, I will restrain myself: as she bringing forth I will cry out; I will lay waste and snuff up together.

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Isaiah 42:16

I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

Isaiah 42:17

They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

Isaiah 42:18

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, to see.

Isaiah 42:19

Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah?

Isaiah 42:20

Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear.

Isaiah 42:21

Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.

Isaiah 42:22

And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give ear to this? and will attend and hear hereafter?

Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Jacob for a treading down, and Israel for spoils? did not Jehovah against whom we sinned? and they would not go in his ways and they heard not to his laws.

Isaiah 42:25

And be will pour upon him the heat of his anger, and the strength of war: and it will burn him from round about, and he will not know; and it will feed upon him and he will not lay to the heart.