Isaiah 42

1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.Cross-references: Ps 89:19 · Isa 2:4 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 32:16 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 43:10 · +31 more

2He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.Cross-references: Zech 9:9 · Matt 11:29 · Matt 12:16 · Luke 17:20 · 2Tim 2:24 · 1Pet 2:23

3He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.Cross-references: Ps 72:2 · Ps 96:13 · Ps 98:9 · Ps 103:13 · Ps 147:3 · Isa 11:3 · +21 more

4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 98:2 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 9:7 · +19 more

5God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:Cross-references: Gen 1:10 · Gen 1:24 · Gen 2:7 · Job 12:10 · Job 27:3 · Job 33:4 · +21 more

6“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,Cross-references: Ps 45:6 · Isa 26:3 · Isa 32:1 · Isa 41:13 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 43:1 · +26 more

7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.Cross-references: Ps 107:10 · Ps 146:7 · Isa 9:2 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 35:5 · Isa 42:16 · +15 more

8“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.Cross-references: Ex 3:13 · Ex 4:5 · Ex 20:3 · Ex 34:14 · Ps 83:18 · Isa 43:11 · +3 moreExamined: Unitarianism →

9Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”Cross-references: Gen 15:12 · Josh 21:45 · Josh 23:14 · 1Ki 8:15 · 1Ki 11:36 · Isa 41:22 · +7 more

10Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.Cross-references: 1Chr 16:32 · Ps 33:3 · Ps 40:3 · Ps 96:1 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 97:1 · +17 more

11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!Cross-references: Gen 25:23 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 120:5 · Isa 16:1 · Isa 21:16 · Isa 32:16 · +12 more

12Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Ps 96:3 · Ps 117:1 · Isa 24:15 · Isa 42:4 · Isa 66:18 · +3 more

13Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Ps 78:65 · Ps 110:5 · Ps 118:16 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 26:11 · +11 more

14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Job 32:20 · Ps 50:2 · Ps 83:1 · Eccl 8:11 · Jer 15:6 · +4 more

15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.Cross-references: Ps 18:7 · Ps 107:33 · Ps 114:3 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 44:27 · +14 more

16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.Cross-references: Josh 3:4 · Ps 94:14 · Eccl 1:15 · Eccl 7:13 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 29:24 · +24 more

17“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · Ex 32:8 · Ps 97:7 · Isa 1:29 · Isa 44:11 · Isa 44:17 · +3 more

18“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Prov 20:12 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 35:5 · Isa 43:8 · Mark 7:34 · +2 more

19Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?Cross-references: Isa 6:9 · Isa 26:3 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 44:26 · Isa 56:10 · +16 more

20You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.Cross-references: Num 14:22 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 29:2 · Neh 9:10 · Ps 106:7 · Ps 107:43 · +11 more

21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.Cross-references: Ps 40:8 · Ps 71:16 · Ps 71:19 · Ps 85:9 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 42:4 · +22 more

22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’Cross-references: Deut 28:29 · Ps 50:22 · Ps 102:20 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 14:17 · Isa 18:2 · +14 more

23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 32:29 · Prov 1:22 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 48:18 · +7 more

24Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Deut 32:30 · Judg 2:14 · Judg 3:8 · Judg 10:7 · 2Chr 15:6 · +16 more

25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”Cross-references: Lev 26:15 · Deut 32:22 · 2Ki 25:9 · Ps 79:5 · Isa 9:13 · Isa 29:13 · +12 more