1Behold My Servant, Whom I uphold; Mine Elect, in Whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth justice {judgment} to the nations {Gentiles}. 2He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. 3A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench; He shall bring forth justice {judgment} unto truth. 4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set justice {judgment} in the earth; and the isles shall wait for His law. 5Thus saith God, the LORD, He Who created the heavens, and stretched them out; He Who spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He Who giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: 6I, the LORD, have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the Gentiles; 7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

8I am the LORD; that is My name; and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to carved {graven} images. 9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.

10Sing unto the LORD a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is in it {therein}; the coasts {isles}, and their inhabitants {thereof}. 11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 12Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare His praise in the islands. 13The LORD shall go forth like {as} a mighty man; He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies. 14I have for long time held {holden} My peace; I have been still, and restrained {refrained} Myself. Now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers coastlands {islands}, and I will dry up the pools. 16And 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 unto them, and not forsake them. 17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved {graven} images, that say to the melted {molten} images, Ye are our gods.

18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind (heathen idol worshippers v.17), that ye may see. 19Who is blind, but My servant (Israel)? Or deaf, as My messenger (Israel, God's messenger to the heathen nations) that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? 20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the law, and make it honorable. (God is pleased for His righteousness' sake to magnify the law, and make it honorable.) 22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. 23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? 24Who 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 unto His law. 25Therefore, He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.