Isaiah 42:1–9

The Mission of Yahweh’s Servant

42Look! here is my servant; I hold him,

my chosen one, in whom my soul delights.

I have put^a my spirit on him;

he will bring justice forth to the nations.

²He will not cry out and lift up

and make his voice heard in the street.

³He will not break a broken reed,

and he will not extinguish a dim wick.

He will bring justice forth in^b faithfulness.

⁴He will not grow faint,

and he will not be broken

until he has established justice in the earth.

And the coastlands wait for his teaching.

⁵Thus says the God, Yahweh,

who created the heavens

and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and its offspring,

who gives breath to the people upon it

and spirit to those who walk in it.

⁶“I am Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness,

and I have grasped your hand and watched over you;

and I have given you as a covenant of the people,

as a light of the nations,

⁷to open the blind eyes,

to bring the prisoner out from the dungeon,

those who sit in darkness from the house of imprisonment.

⁸I am Yahweh; that is my name,

and I do not give my glory to another,

nor^c my praise to the idols.

⁹Look! the former things have come,

and I declare new things.

I announce^d them to you before they sprout up.”