2.
As a covenant for the people and a light for the nations
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aHere is My
1bServant, whom I uphold,
My
cchosen One
din whom My soul delights;
I have put My
2eSpirit upon Him,
And He will bring forth
3justice to the nations.
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He will not
1cry out, nor lift up
His voice,
Nor make His voice heard in the street.
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A 1bruised reed He will not break;
And a
1dimly burning flax He will not extinguish;
He will bring forth justice in truth.
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He will not
1faint, nor will He
2be discouraged,
Until He has established
3justice in the earth;
And the coastlands will wait for His instruction.
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Thus says God Jehovah,
Who created the
aheavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the
bearth and what springs up from it,
Who gives
cbreath to the people upon it
And
1spirit to those who walk on it:
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I am Jehovah; I have
acalled You in righteousness;
I have held You by the hand;
I have kept You and I have given You
As a
1bcovenant for the people, as a
2clight for the nations;
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To open the eyes of the
ablind,
To bring the prisoner out from the
bprison,
Those who dwell in darkness from the prison house.
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I am Jehovah, that is My name,
And I will not
agive My glory to another,
Nor My praise to idols.
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Indeed, the former things have come to pass,
And
anew things I am telling
you;
Before they spring forth
I will let you hear
them.
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Sing a
anew song to Jehovah;
Sing His praise from the end of the earth;
You who go down to the sea and
all that fills it,
You coastlands and their inhabitants.
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Let the wilderness and its cities,
The villages which Kedar inhabits, lift up
their voices;
Let the inhabitants of
1Sela sing for joy;
Let them shout from the tops of the mountains.
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Let them give glory to Jehovah,
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
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Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man,
Like a
aman of war He will stir up
His jealousy;
He will raise a war cry; He will even roar.
He will prevail over His enemies.
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For a long time I have been silent;
I have kept still, I have restrained Myself.
Now I will cry like a woman in travail;
I will
1gasp and pant at the same time.
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I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
And all of their vegetation I will dry up;
And I will make the rivers into islands;
I will dry up the pools.
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I will bring the blind on a way they do not know;
I will guide them in paths they do not know;
I will make the
adarkness into light before them,
And
bcrooked things straight.
These are the things
I will do for them and will not forsake them.
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They who have turned back will be utterly put to shame,
That is, those who trust in graven images,
Those who say to molten images,
You are our gods.
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You who are
adeaf, Hear;
And you who are blind, Look, that you may see.
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Who is blind except My
1servant,
And as deaf as My messenger,
whom I will send?
Who is as blind as the one at peace
with Me,
And as blind as the servant of Jehovah?
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You have seen many things and do not observe
them;
His ears are open, but he does
anot hear.
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Jehovah is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
He will magnify the law and make
it honorable.
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But this is a people plundered and spoiled:
All of them are trapped in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver;
They have become spoil, and there is no one to say, Restore
them.
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Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will pay attention and listen to the coming things?
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Who gave Jacob to the plunderers,
And Israel to the robbers?
Was it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,
And whose law they would not obey?
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Therefore He poured out upon them the heat of His anger
And the strength of battle;
And set them on fire round about, yet they did not realize
it;
And He burned against them and they did not take
it to
aheart.
