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 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 leading to truth.
4. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set judgment in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.
5. Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread out the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
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 to the Gentiles;
7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who 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 sculptured 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.
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 therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
11. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits: 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 shall go forth like a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
14. I have for a long time held my peace; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a woman in birth labor; I will destroy and devour at once.
15. I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; 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 for them, and not forsake them.
17. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in sculptured 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 like he that is perfect, and blind like the LORD'S servant?
20. Seeing many things, you do not observe; opening his ears, he does not hear.
21. The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22. But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in pits, and they are hid in prison houses: they are a prey, and none delivers; a spoil, and none says, Restore.
23. Who among you will give ear 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 whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.
25. Therefore he has poured upon 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 did not take it to heart.