Here Is My Servant
(Matthew 12:15–21)

1Behold my servant, I will hold fast in him; my chosen, my soul delighted; I gave my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

2He shall not cry, and be shall not lift up, and he shall not cause his voice to be heard without.

3A broken reed he shall not break, and bedimmed flax shall he not quench it: he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

4He shall not be weak, and he shall not break, till he shall set judgment in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law:

5Thus said God Jehovah, creating the heavens and stretching them out; and spreading out the earth and its productions; giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those going upon it:

6I Jehovah called thee in justice, and I will hold by thy hand, and I will guard thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for the light of the nations,

7To open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth the bound out of prison, those sitting in darkness out of the house of the prison.

8I Jehovah, this my name: and my glory I will not give to another, and my praise to carved images.

9The first things, behold, they came, and new things I announce: before they shall spring up I will cause you to hear.

A New Song of Praise
(Psalm 98:1–9; Psalm 149:1–9)

10Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the extremity of the earth, ye going down to the sea, and its fulness; the isles and their inhabitants.

11The desert and its cities shall lift up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit: they inhabiting the rock shall shout for joy, from the head of the mountains they shall shout for joy.

12They shall set glory to Jehovah, and they shall announce his praise in the islands.

13Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.

14I was silent of old; I will be still, I will restrain myself: as she bringing forth I will cry out; I will lay waste and snuff up together.

15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.

16I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not.

17They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

Israel Is Deaf and Blind

18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, to see.

19Who blind but my servant? and deaf as my messenger I shall send? who blind he being perfect? and blind as the servant of Jehovah?

20Seeing many things, and thou wilt not watch; opening the ears, and he will not bear.

21Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.

22And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back.

23Who among you will give ear to this? and will attend and hear hereafter?

24Who gave Jacob for a treading down, and Israel for spoils? did not Jehovah against whom we sinned? and they would not go in his ways and they heard not to his laws.

25And be will pour upon him the heat of his anger, and the strength of war: and it will burn him from round about, and he will not know; and it will feed upon him and he will not lay to the heart.