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| [1]BEHOLD, my servant, whom I uphold, my elect in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the Gentiles. |
[1]Behold this is my seruaunt vpon whom I leane, my elect in who my soule is pacified: I haue geuen my spirite vpon him, that he may shewe foorth iudgement among the gentiles |
| [2]He shall not cry, nor make a sound, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. |
[2]He shall not be an outcryer, nor lift vp his voyce, his voyce shall not be hearde in the streetes |
| [3]A bruised reed shall he not break, and a flickering lamp he shall not extinguish; he shall truly bring forth judgment. |
[3]And a broosed reede shall he not breake, and the smoking flaxe shall he not quench: but faythfully and truely shall he geue iudgement |
| [4]He shall not fail nor be discouraged till he has set justice in the earth; and the islands shall wait for his law |
[4]He shall not be pensiue nor carefull, that he may restore righteousnesse vnto the earth: and the gentiles also shall loke for his lawes |
| [5]Thus says the LORD God, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread forth the earth and all that is in it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk therein; |
[5]For thus saith God the Lorde vnto hym, euen he that made the heauens and spread them abroade, and set foorth the earth with her increase, whiche geueth breath vnto the people that is in it, and spirite to them that dwell therein |
| [6]I the LORD have called you in righteousness and have held your hand and have strengthened you and have given you for a covenant to the people and for a light to the Gentiles; |
[6]I the Lorde haue called thee in righteousnesse, and wyll holde thee by the hande, and wyll also defende thee, and geue thee for a couenaunt of the people, to be the light of the gentiles |
| [7]That you may open the eyes of the blind, to release prisoners from bondage, and bring out of the prison house those who sit in darkness. |
[7]That thou mayest open the eyes of the blinde, let out the prisoners from their bondes, and them that sit in darknesse out of the dungeon house |
| [8]I am the LORD; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. |
[8]Euen I am the Lord, and this is my name: and my glory wyll I geue to none other, neither mine honour to grauen images |
| [9]Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. |
[9]Beholde olde thinges are come to passe, and newe thinges do I declare, and or euer they come I tell you of them |
| [10]Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the ends of the earth, you that go down to the sea and all that is therein; the islands and those who dwell in them. |
[10]Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song of thankesgeuing, blowe out his prayse from the ende of the worlde: they that be vpon the sea, and all that is therein prayse hym, the Isles and they that dwell in them |
| [11]Let the wilderness and its towns rejoice; let Kedar be meadows; let the inhabitants of the steep rocks sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. |
[11]Let the wildernesse with the cities lift vp her voyce, the townes also that they of Cedar dwell in: let them be glad that sit vpon rockes of stone, and let them crye downe from the high mountaines |
| [12]Let them give glory to the LORD and declare his praise in the islands |
[12]Ascribing glory vnto the Lorde, and magnifiyng hym among the gentiles |
| [13]The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up zealousness like a man of war; he shall shout and become valiant; he shall slay his enemies. |
[13]The Lorde shall come foorth lyke a giaunt, and take a stomacke to him like a freshe man of warre: he shall roare and crye, and ouercome his enemies |
| [14]I have for a long time held my peace; I have kept silent, I have been patient like a woman in travail; I have remained speechless and completely confounded. |
[14]I haue long holden my peace [saith the Lorde] I haue ben styll and refrained my selfe, but now I wyll crie like a trauayling woman, and at once wyll I destroy and deuour |
| [15]I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. |
[15]I wyll make waste both mountaine and hill, and drye vp euery greene thing that groweth theron: I wyll drye vp the fluddes to become Ilandes, and drinke vp the riuers |
| [16]And I will lead the blind by a way that they know not; and in the paths that they have not known I will make them walk; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things have I done to them and have not forsaken them. |
[16]I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them |
| [17]They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, You are our gods |
[17]They are fallen backe, yea and let them be ashamed earnestly that hope in idols, and say to the moulten images, ye are our gods |
| [18]Hear, O you deaf! And understand and see, O you blind! |
[18]Heare O ye deafe men, and sharpen your eyes to see O ye blinde |
| [19]Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as the ruler? and blind as the LORD'S servant? |
[19]Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or so deafe as my messenger whom I sent vnto them? for who is so blinde as the perfect man, and so blinde as the Lords seruaunt |
| [20]I gave you counsel, but you observed it not; I opened your ears, but you heard not. |
[20]Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth |
| [21]The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law and make it honorable. |
[21]The Lorde is mercyfull vnto them for his righteousnesse sake, that his word might be magnified and praysed |
| [22]But this is a people robbed and downtrodden; all the young men are snared, and they are hid in prison houses; they have become a prey, and there is none to deliver; and trampled upon, and there is none to restore. |
[22]But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne |
| [23]Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken to the other counsel? |
[23]But who is he among you that pondereth this, that considereth it, and taketh it for a warning in tyme to come |
| [24]Who gave Jacob to be trod under foot and Israel for a spoil? Was it not the LORD, because we have sinned against him? For we would not walk in his ways, neither were we obedient to his law. |
[24]Who gaue Iacob to be troden vnder foote, and Israel to be spoyled? Did not the Lorde? Because we haue sinned against hym, and haue had no delight to walke in his wayes, neither ben obedient vnto his lawe |
| [25]Therefore he has poured upon them the fury of his anger and the fierceness of battle; and it has set them on fire round about, yet they knew it not; and it burned them, yet they laid it not to heart |
[25]Therfore he hath powred vpon hym his wrathfull displeasure and strong battayle, and hath fired hym on euery side, yet wyll he not vnderstand: he burneth hym vp, yet sinketh it not into his heart |