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The Servant of The LORD

Jacob, my child, I shall take hold of him. Israel, my chosen, [²favorably received ³him ¹my soul]. I have put my spirit upon him, [²judgment ³to the ⁴nations ¹he shall bring forth].

²He shall not cry out, nor shall he send up his voice, nor shall [²be heard ³outside ¹his voice].

³A reed being crushed he will not break, and [²flax ¹smoking] he will not extinguish; but to validity he will bring forth judgment.

⁴He shall illuminate, and shall not be devastated until whenever he should set [²upon ³the ⁴earth ¹judgment]. And upon his name nations shall hope.

⁵Thus says the LORD God, the one making the heaven, and pitching it; solidifying the earth, and the things in it; and giving breath to the people upon it, and spirit to the ones treading it.

⁶I the LORD God called you in righteousness, and I shall hold your hand, and I will strengthen you; and I gave you for a covenant of a race, for a light of nations;

⁷to open the eyes of the blind, to lead out of bonds ones being tied; from out of the house of prison also ones sitting in darkness.

⁸I am the LORD God; this is my name; [³my glory ⁴to another ¹I will not ²give], nor my virtues to the carvings.

⁹The things from the beginning, behold, they have come, and the new things which I shall announce, even before the announcing, it was made manifest to you.

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A Song of Praise

Sing to the LORD [²hymn ¹a new]! Glorify his name from the uttermost part of the earth! O ones going down into the sea, and sailing it; the islands, and the ones dwelling in them.

¹¹Be glad, O wilderness and her towns, properties, and the ones dwelling in Kedar! [⁴shall be glad ¹The ones ²dwelling in ³the rock]. From the tip of the mountains they shall yell.

¹²They shall give [²to God ¹glory]; [²his virtues ³in ⁴the ⁵islands ¹they shall report].

¹³The LORD God of the forces shall go forth, and shall break war. He shall rouse zeal, and shall yell against his enemies with strength.

¹⁴I kept silent from the eon; shall I also continually keep silent and endure? As the woman giving birth perseveres, I will now amaze and dry out at the same time.

¹⁵I will make [⁴desolate ¹mountains ²and ³hills], and [²all ³their grass ¹will dry out]. And I will make rivers into islands, and marshes to dry land.

¹⁶And I will lead the blind in the way which they knew not, and [⁴roads ⁵which ⁶they had not ⁷seen ³to tread ¹I will cause ²them]. I will make for them darkness into light, and crooked into straight. These are the things I will do to them, and I shall not abandon them.

¹⁷But they were turned into the rear. You should be ashamed with shame, O ones relying upon the carvings, O ones saying to the molten images, You are our gods.

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The Blindness of Israel

O deaf-mutes, hear! and O blind, look up to behold!

¹⁹And who is blind, but my servants? And who are deaf-mutes, but the ones dominating them? Who is blind as the one receiving? even [⁴were blinded ¹the ²servants ³of God].

²⁰You beheld many times, and watched not; opening the ears, and heard not.

²¹The LORD God willed that he should be justified, and should magnify praise.

²²And I beheld, and it came to pass the people were being despoiled and plundered; for the snare is in the storerooms everywhere, and in the houses together where they hid them; they became for plunder, and there was not the one rescuing one seized; and there was not the one saying, Give back!

²³Who among you shall give ear to these things which shall be heard for the things coming about?

²⁴Who gave [²for ³ravaging ¹Jacob], and Israel to the ones plundering? Was it not God to whom they sinned? And they did not want [²in ³his ways ¹to go], nor to hear his law.

²⁵And he brought upon them the anger of his rage; and [²strengthened ³against them ¹the war] and the ones burning them round about; and [³did not ⁴know ¹each ²of them], nor put it unto their soul.