Isaiah 42:1-12 - Heartlight

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold,

My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights.

I will put My Spirit on Him,

and He will bring justice to the nations.

²He will not cry out or raise His voice,

nor make His voice heard in the streets.

³A bruised reed He will not break

and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish;

He will faithfully bring forth justice.

⁴He will not grow weak or discouraged

before He has established justice on the earth.

In His law the islands will put their hope.”

⁵This is what God the LORD says —

He who created the heavens

and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and its offspring,

who gives breath to the people on it

and life to those who walk in it:

⁶“I, the LORD, have called you

for a righteous purpose,

and I will take hold of your hand.

I will keep you and appoint you

to be a covenant for the people

and a light to the nations,

⁷to open the eyes of the blind,

to bring prisoners out of the dungeon

and those sitting in darkness

out from the prison house.

⁸I am the LORD;

that is My name!

I will not yield My glory to another

or My praise to idols.

⁹Behold, the former things have happened,

and now I declare new things.

Before they spring forth

I proclaim them to you.”

¹⁰Sing to the LORD a new song —

His praise from the ends of the earth—

you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,

you islands, and all who dwell in them.

¹¹Let the desert and its cities raise their voices;

let the villages of Kedar cry aloud.

Let the people of Sela sing for joy;

let them cry out from the mountaintops.

¹²Let them give glory to the LORD

and declare His praise in the islands.

— Isaiah 42:1-12

(BSB)

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