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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I've placed my Spirit upon him; and he'll deliver his justice throughout the world. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He won't shout, or raise his voice, or make it heard in the street. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And he won't grow faint or be crushed until he establishes justice on the mainland, and the coastlands take ownership of his Law." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5This is what God says— the God who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it: |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6 "I've called you in righteousness. I'll take hold of your hand. I'll preserve you and appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light for the nations, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7to open blind eyes and to bring out those who are bound from their cells, and those sitting in darkness from prison. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I, the LORD, am the one, and I won't give my name and glory to another, nor my praise to idols. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9See, the former things have taken place, and I'm announcing the new things— before they spring into being I'm telling you about them." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the ends of the earth, you who sail down the sea and by everything in it, you coastlands and their inhabitants. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Let the desert cry out, its towns and the villages where Kedar lives; and let those who live in Sela sing for joy. Let them shout aloud from the mountaintops. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The LORD marches out like a warrior; he stirs up his rage like a man of war; he makes his anger heard; he shouts aloud; he declares his mastery over his enemies: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I have certainly stayed silent for a long time; I've kept still and held myself back. Now, like a woman giving birth, I'll cry out. All of a sudden I'll gasp and pant. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I'll devastate the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I'll turn rivers into islands, and dry up the ponds. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I'll help the blind walk, even on a road they do not know; I'll guide them in directions they do not know. I'll turn the dark places into light in front of them, and the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I won't abandon them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Those who trust in carved idols will turn back and be completely disappointed, along with those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Listen, you deaf people, and look up, you blind people, so you may see! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger I am sending? Who is blind like the one committed to me, or blind like the LORD's servant? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You've seen many things, but you pay no attention. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of his vindication, that he should magnify his Law and make it glorious. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become prey, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, 'Send them back!' |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Who among you will listen, and pay attention, and listen for the time to come?" |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Who handed Jacob over to looters, and Israel to robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? After all, they weren't willing to walk in his ways, and they wouldn't obey his instruction, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart." |
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