¹ See my servant, who I uphold; my elect, in Who my soul delights; I have put my spirit on him: he will bring forward judgment to the Gentiles. ² He will not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. ³ A bruised reed will he not break, and the smoking flax will he not quench: he will bring forward judgment to truth. ⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles will wait for his law. ⁵ So says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forward the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk in it ⁶ I the LORD 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 prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison 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. ⁹ See, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forward I tell you of them. ¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is in it; 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 the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. ¹² Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. ¹³ The LORD will go forward as a mighty man, he will stir up jealousy like a man of war: he will cry, yes, roar; he will prevail against his enemies. ¹⁴ I have long time heldmy peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a labouring 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 rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. ¹⁶ And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do to them, and not abandon them. ¹⁷ They will be turned back, they will be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the 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 that I sent ? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? ²⁰ Seeing many things, but you observes not; opening the ears, but he hears not. ²¹ The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. ²² But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them trapped 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 among you will listen to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come? ²⁴ Who gave Jacob for a spoil , and Israel to the robbers ? did not the LORD, he against who we have sinned ? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law. ²⁵ Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.