42 “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.
² He will not shout,
    nor raise his voice,
    nor cause it to be heard in the street.
³ He won’t break a bruised reed.
    He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
    He will faithfully bring justice.
⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged,
    until he has set justice in the earth,
    and the islands wait for his law.”

⁵ God 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:
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,
⁷     to open the blind eyes,
    to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
    and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

⁸ “I am Yahweh.
    That is my name.
    I will not give my glory to another,
    nor my praise to engraved images.
⁹ Behold, the former things have happened
    and I declare new things.
    I tell you about them before they come up.”

49 Listen, islands, to me.
    Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
    from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
² He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
    He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me a polished shaft.
    He has kept me close in his quiver.
³ He said to me, “You are my servant,
    Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
⁴ But I said, “I have labored in vain.
    I have spent my strength in vain for nothing;
yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh,
    and my reward with my God.”

⁵ Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
    says to bring Jacob again to him,
    and to gather Israel to him,
    for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes,
    and my God has become my strength.
⁶ Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
    and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also give you as a light to the nations,
    that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
⁷ Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One,
    says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers:
“Kings shall see and rise up,
    princes, and they shall worship,
    because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

⁸ Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
    I have helped you in a day of salvation.
I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,
    to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
⁹ saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
    to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They shall feed along the paths,
    and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst;
    neither shall the heat nor sun strike them,
    for he who has mercy on them will lead them.
    He will guide them by springs of water.
¹¹ I will make all my mountains a road,
    and my highways shall be exalted.
¹² Behold, these shall come from afar,
    and behold, these from the north and from the west,
    and these from the land of Sinim.”
¹³ Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
    Break out into singing, mountains!
For Yahweh has comforted his people,
    and will have compassion on his afflicted.

⁴ The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
    that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.
He awakens morning by morning,
    he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
⁵ The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear.
    I was not rebellious.
    I have not turned back.
⁶ I gave my back to those who beat me,
    and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.
    I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
⁷ For the Lord Yahweh will help me.
    Therefore I have not been confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a flint,
    and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
⁸ He who justifies me is near.
    Who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
    Who is my adversary?
    Let him come near to me.
⁹ Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me!
    Who is he who will condemn me?
Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.
    The moths will eat them up.

¹⁰ Who among you fears Yahweh
    and obeys the voice of his servant?
He who walks in darkness
    and has no light,
let him trust in Yahweh’s name,
    and rely on his God.
¹¹ Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
    who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves,
walk in the flame of your fire,
    and among the torches that you have kindled.
You will have this from my hand:
    you will lie down in sorrow.

¹³ Behold, my servant will deal wisely.
    He will be exalted and lifted up,
    and will be very high.
¹⁴ Just as many were astonished at you—
    his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
¹⁵ so he will cleanse^[a] many nations.
    Kings will shut their mouths at him;
    for they will see that which had not been told them,
    and they will understand that which they had not heard.

53 Who has believed our message?
    To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?
² For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
    and as a root out of dry ground.
He has no good looks or majesty.
    When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
³ He was despised
    and rejected by men,
a man of suffering
    and acquainted with disease.
He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
    and we didn’t respect him.

⁴ Surely he has borne our sickness
    and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
    struck by God, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions.
    He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
    and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray.
    Everyone has turned to his own way;
    and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed,
    yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he didn’t open his mouth.
⁸ He was taken away by oppression and judgment.
    As for his generation,
    who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
    and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
⁹ They made his grave with the wicked,
    and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
    He has caused him to suffer.
When you make his soul an offering for sin,
    he will see his offspring.
He will prolong his days
    and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
¹¹ After the suffering of his soul,
    he will see the light^[b] and be satisfied.
My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
    and he will bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will give him a portion with the great.
    He will divide the plunder with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
    and was counted with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sins of many
    and made intercession for the transgressors.