_The Mediator of Israel and Saviour of the Gentiles._
1. Behold My servant, who I uphold; Mine elect, whom My soul loveth;
I have laid My Spirit upon Him; He will bring out right to the
Gentiles. 2. He will not cry, nor lift up, nor cause to be heard in
the street, His voice. 3. A bruised reed He does not break, and a
glimmering wick He does not put out: according to truth He brings out
right.[1] 4. He will not become faint or broken till He establish
right upon earth, and the islands wait for His instruction.
5. Thus saith God, Jehovah, Who created the heavens and stretched
them out; Who spread the earth, and its productions; Who gave the
spirit of life to the people upon it, and the breath of life to them
that walk upon it: 6. I, Jehovah, I have called Thee in
righteousness, and grasped Thy hand; and I keep Thee, and make Thee
the covenant of the people, the light of the Gentiles, 7. to open
blind eyes, to bring out prisoners out of the prison, them that sit
in darkness out of the prison-house.
8. I am Jehovah, that is My name, and My glory I will not give to
another, nor My renown to idols. 9. The first, behold, is come to
pass, and new things am I proclaiming; before it springs up, I will
let you hear it.
10. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the
earth, ye navigators of the sea, and its fulness; ye islands and
their inhabitants. 11. Let the desert and the cities thereof strike
up, the villages the Kedar doth inhabit; the inhabitants of the
rock-city may rejoice, about from the summits of the mountains.
12. Let them give glory to Jehovah, and proclaim His praise in the
islands. 13. Jehovah, like a hero will He go forth, kindle jealousy
like a man of war; He will break forth into a war-cry, a yelling
war-cry, prove Himself a hero upon His enemies.
14. I have been silent eternally long, over still, restrained myself;
like[2] a travailing woman, I now breathe again, snort and snuff
together. 15. I will make waste mountains and hills, and all their
herbage I dry up, and change streams into islands, and lakes I dry
up. 16. And I lead the blind by a way that they know not; by steps
that they know not, I make them walk; I turn dark space before them
into light, and rugged places into a plain. These are the things that
I carry out, and do not leave.
17. They fall back, are put deeply to shame, that trust in molten
images, that say to the molten image, Thou art our god.