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[1]Behold, my servant: I will stay upon him: mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
[2]He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
[3]A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment in truth.
[4]He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
[5]Thus saith God the Lord (he that created the heavens and spread them abroad: he that stretched forth the earth, and the buds thereof: he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein)
[6]I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and I will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, and for a light of the Gentiles,
[7]That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sit in darkness, out of the prison house.
[8]I am the Lord, this is my name, and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
[9]Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they come forth, I tell you of them.
[10]Sing unto the Lord a new song , and his praise from the end of the earth: ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein: the isles and the inhabitants thereof.
[11]Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the towns that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rocks sing: let them shout from the top of the mountains.
[12]Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.
[13]The Lord shall go forth as a giant: he shall stir up his courage like a man of war: he shall shout and cry, and shall prevail against his enemies.
[14]I have a long time holden my peace: I have been still and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman: I will destroy and devour at once.
[15]I will make waste mountains, and hills, and dry up all their herbs, and I will make the floods islands, and I will dry up the pools.
[16]And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and lead them by paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
[17]They shall be turned back: they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, and say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
[18]Hear, ye deaf: and ye blind regard that ye may see.
[19]Who is blind but my servant? Or deaf as my messenger, that I sent? Who is blind as the perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
[20]Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? Opening the ears, but he heareth not?
[21]The Lord is willing for his righteousness sake that he may magnify the law, and exalt it.
[22]But this people is robbed and spoiled, and shall be all snared in dungeons, and they shall be hid in prison houses: they shall be for a prey, and none shall deliver: a spoil, and none shall say, Restore.
[23]Who among you shall hearken to this, and take heed, and hear for afterwards?
[24]Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord, because we have sinned against him? For they would not walk in his ways, neither be obedient unto his law.
[25]Therefore he hath poured upon him his fierce wrath, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire round about, and he knew not, and it burned him up, yet he considered not.
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