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El siervo del Señor

42 Vean a mi Siervo, a quien yo sostengo, mi elegido, en quien me deleito. En él he puesto mi Espíritu, él mostrará lo que es justicia a las naciones del mundo. Será apacible, no gritará ni reñirá en las calles. No quebrará la caña maltratada, ni apagará la llama vacilante. Se encargará de que se haga plena justicia a las víctimas de injusticia, y no se dará por satisfecho hasta que la verdad y la justicia prevalezcan en toda la tierra, y hasta que las lejanas tierras de ultramar hayan puesto en él su confianza.

El Señor Dios que creó el cielo y lo extendió, y creó la tierra y cuanto hay en ella, y que da vida, aliento y espíritu a todos en el mundo, es el que dice:

Yo, el Señor, te he llamado para demostrar mi justicia, yo te cuidaré y te sostendré, porque te he dado a mi pueblo como confirmación personal de mi pacto con ellos. Serás también luz que guíe las naciones hacia mí. Darás vista a los ciegos y libertarás a los que yacen en prisión de tinieblas y desaliento. ¡Yo soy el Señor! Ese es mi nombre y no daré a ningún otro mi gloria, no compartiré mi alabanza con ídolos tallados. Todo lo que yo profeticé se cumplió, y ahora volveré a profetizar; te diré el futuro antes que acontezca.

Canción de alabanza al Señor

10 Entonen un canto nuevo al Señor; entonen sus alabanzas, todos los que habitan en los más remotos rincones de la tierra. ¡Canta, oh mar! ¡Canten todos los que moran en tierras distantes de ultramar! 11 Únanse al coro, ciudades del desierto: Cedar y Selá. Y ustedes también, los que moran en las cumbres de los montes. 12 Que las costas del oeste glorifiquen al Señor y canten su gran poder.

13 El Señor será poderoso guerrero, lleno de ira contra sus enemigos. Lanzará un fuerte grito de guerra y vencerá. 14 Él callaba desde hace tiempo. Se había dominado, pero ahora desatará su ira. Gemirá y llorará como mujer que da a luz. 15 Aplanará los montes y collados y quemará su verdor. Secará los ríos y estanques. 16 Al ciego Israel lo conducirá por sendas que nunca antes vio. Ante ellos hará resplandecer las tinieblas, y allanará y enderezará el camino que les espera, no los abandonará. 17 Pero los que confían en ídolos y los llaman dioses tendrán enorme desengaño, serán desechados.

Israel ciego y sordo

18 ¡Oh, qué ciegos y sordos son para con Dios! ¿Por qué no quieren escuchar? ¿Por qué no quieren ver? 19 ¿Quién hay en el mundo tan ciego como mi pueblo, destinado a ser mi mensajero de la verdad? ¿Quién tan ciego como mi «consagrado», el «Siervo del Señor»? 20 Ven y comprenden lo bueno, pero no hacen caso, no lo ponen por obra; oyen, pero no quieren entender.

21 El Señor ha enaltecido su ley y la ha hecho verdaderamente gloriosa. Mediante ella había planeado mostrarle al mundo que él es justo. 22 ¡Pero qué espectáculo da su pueblo, los encargados de mostrarle a todo el mundo la gloria de su ley, pues son víctimas de robo y están esclavizados, encarcelados, atrapados, presa de todos, sin quién los proteja! 23 ¿No hay entre ustedes siquiera uno que saque enseñanzas de estas lecciones del pasado y vea la ruina que les espera? 24 ¿Quién permitió que a Israel se le robara y dañara? ¿No fue el Señor? Fue el Señor contra el cual pecaron, porque no quisieron ir a donde él los enviaba ni escuchar sus leyes. 25 Por eso derramó el Señor tan grande furia e ira sobre su pueblo y lo destruyó en batalla. Sin embargo, aun sobre el fuego y quemándose, no entienden el porqué: ¡Está Dios deseoso de que se arrepientan!

The Servant of the Lord

42 “Behold! (A)My Servant whom I uphold,
My [a]Elect One in whom My soul (B)delights!
(C)I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed He will not break,
And [b]smoking flax He will not [c]quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth.
He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
(D)And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”

Thus says God the Lord,
(E)Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
(F)Who gives breath to the people on it,
And spirit to those who walk on it:
“I,(G) the Lord, have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You (H)and give You as a covenant to the people,
As (I)a light to the Gentiles,
(J)To open blind eyes,
To (K)bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in (L)darkness from the prison house.
I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My (M)glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
Behold, the former things have come to pass,
And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Praise to the Lord

10 (N)Sing to the Lord a new song,
And His praise from the ends of the earth,
(O)You who go down to the sea, and [d]all that is in it,
You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
The villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
And declare His praise in the coastlands.
13 The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man;
He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
He shall cry out, (P)yes, shout aloud;
He shall prevail against His enemies.

Promise of the Lord’s Help

14 “I have held My peace a long time,
I have been still and restrained Myself.
Now I will cry like a woman in [e]labor,
I will pant and gasp at once.
15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
And dry up all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers coastlands,
And I will dry up the pools.
16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them.
17 They shall be (Q)turned back,
They shall be greatly ashamed,
Who trust in carved images,
Who say to the molded images,
‘You are our gods.’

18 “Hear, you deaf;
And look, you blind, that you may see.
19 (R)Who is blind but My servant,
Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord’s servant?
20 Seeing many things, (S)but you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

Israel’s Obstinate Disobedience

21 The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
22 But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are [f]snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”

23 Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord,
He against whom we have sinned?
(T)For they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law.
25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
(U)It has set him on fire all around,
(V)Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to (W)heart.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:1 Chosen
  2. Isaiah 42:3 dimly burning
  3. Isaiah 42:3 extinguish
  4. Isaiah 42:10 Lit. its fullness
  5. Isaiah 42:14 childbirth
  6. Isaiah 42:22 Or trapped in caves

The Lord’s Special Servant

42 “Here is my servant, the one I support.
    He is the one I chose, and I am pleased with him.
I will put my Spirit in him.
    And he will bring justice to all nations.
He will not cry out or yell.
    He will not speak loudly in the streets.
He will not break a crushed blade of grass.
    He will not put out even a weak flame.
He will bring justice and find what is true.
    He will not lose hope or give up
until he brings justice to the world.
    And people far away will trust his teachings.”

God, the Lord, said these things.
He created the skies and stretched them out.
    He spread out the earth and everything on it.
He gives life to all people on earth.
    He gives life to everyone who walks on the earth.
The Lord says, “I called you to do right.
    And I will hold your hand.
I will protect you.
    You will be the sign of my agreement with the people.
    You will be a light to shine for all people.
You will help the blind to see.
    You will free those who are in prison.
    You will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.

“I am the Lord. That is my name.
    I will not give my glory to another.
    I will not let idols take the praise that should be mine.
The things I said would happen have happened.
    And now I tell you about new things.
Before those things happen,
    I tell you about them.”

A Song of Praise to the Lord

10 Sing a new song to the Lord.
    Sing his praise everywhere on the earth.
Praise him, you people who sail on the seas and you animals who live in them.
    Praise him, you people living in faraway places.
11 The deserts and their cities should praise him.
    The settlements of Kedar should praise him.
The people living in Sela should sing for joy.
    They should sing from the mountaintops.
12 They should give glory to the Lord.
    People in faraway lands should praise him.
13 The Lord will march out like a strong soldier.
    He will be excited like a man ready to fight a war.
He will shout out the battle cry.
    And he will defeat his enemies.

14 The Lord says, “For a long time I have said nothing.
    I have been quiet and held myself back.
But now I will cry out.
    I will strain like a woman giving birth to a child.
15 I will destroy the hills and mountains.
    I will dry up all the plants that grow there.
I will make the rivers become dry land.
    I will dry up the pools of water.
16 Then I will lead the blind along a way they never knew.
    I will guide them along paths they have not known.
I will make the darkness become light for them.
    And I will make the rough ground smooth.
These are the things I will do.
    I will not leave my people.
17 But some people trust in idols.
    They say to their statues,
‘You are our gods.’
    Those people will be rejected in disgrace.

Israel Refused to Listen to God

18 “You who are deaf, hear me.
    You who are blind, look and see.
19 No one is more blind than my servant Israel.
    The messenger I send is the most deaf.
No one is more blind than the person I own.
    No one is more blind than the servant of the Lord.
20 Israel, you have seen much, but you have not obeyed.
    You have heard, but you refuse to listen.”
21 The Lord made his teachings wonderful.
    He did this because he is good.
22 These people have been defeated and robbed.
    They are trapped in pits.
    They are locked up in prison.
Like robbers, enemies have taken them away.
    There is no one to save them.
Enemies carried them off.
    And no one said, “Bring them back.”

23 Will any of you listen to this?
    Will you listen carefully in the future?
24 Who let the people of Jacob be carried off?
    Who let robbers take Israel away?
The Lord allowed this to happen
    because we sinned against him.
We did not live the way the Lord wanted us to live.
    We did not obey his teaching.
25 So the Lord became very angry with us.
    He brought terrible wars against us.
It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them.
    But they didn’t know what was happening.
It was as if they were burning.
    But they didn’t pay any attention.