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92 lines
3.4 KiB
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# Chapter 42
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1 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
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My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
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I have put My Spirit upon Him;
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He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
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2 He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
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Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
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3 A bruised reed He will not break,
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And smoking flax He will not quench;
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He will bring forth justice for truth.
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4 He will not fail nor be discouraged,
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Till He has established justice in the earth;
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And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
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5 Thus says God the Lord,
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Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
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Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
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Who gives breath to the people on it,
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And spirit to those who walk on it:
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6 “I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
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And will hold Your hand;
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I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
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As a light to the Gentiles,
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7 To open blind eyes,
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To bring out prisoners from the prison,
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Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
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8 I am the Lord, that is My name;
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And My glory I will not give to another,
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Nor My praise to carved images.
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9 Behold, the former things have come to pass,
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And new things I declare;
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Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
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10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
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And His praise from the ends of the earth,
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You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
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You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
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11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
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The villages that Kedar inhabits.
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Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
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Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
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12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
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And declare His praise in the coastlands.
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13 The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man;
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He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
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He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud;
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He shall prevail against His enemies.
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14 “I have held My peace a long time,
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I have been still and restrained Myself.
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Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
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I will pant and gasp at once.
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15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
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And dry up all their vegetation;
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I will make the rivers coastlands,
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And I will dry up the pools.
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16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
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I will lead them in paths they have not known.
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I will make darkness light before them,
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And crooked places straight.
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These things I will do for them,
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And not forsake them.
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17 They shall be turned back,
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They shall be greatly ashamed,
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Who trust in carved images,
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Who say to the molded images,
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‘You are our gods.’
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18 “Hear, you deaf;
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And look, you blind, that you may see.
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19 Who is blind but My servant,
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Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
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Who is blind as he who is perfect,
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And blind as the Lord’s servant?
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20 Seeing many things, but you do not observe;
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Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”
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21 The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
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He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
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22 But this is a people robbed and plundered;
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All of them are snared in holes,
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And they are hidden in prison houses;
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They are for prey, and no one delivers;
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For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”
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23 Who among you will give ear to this?
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Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
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24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
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Was it not the Lord,
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He against whom we have sinned?
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For they would not walk in His ways,
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Nor were they obedient to His law.
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25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
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And the strength of battle;
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It has set him on fire all around,
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Yet he did not know;
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And it burned him,
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Yet he did not take it to heart. |