Isaiah 42:1-7

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God’s Promise concerning His Servant

42 “^(A)Behold, My ^(B)Servant, whom I ^[a]uphold;
My ^(C)chosen one in whom My ^(D)soul delights.
I have put My ^(E)Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth ^(F)justice to the ^[b]nations.
²He will not cry out nor raise His voice,
Nor make His voice heard in the street.
³A bent reed He will not break off
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth ^(G)justice.
⁴He will not be ^(H)disheartened or crushed
Until He has established justice on the earth;
And the ^(I)coastlands will wait expectantly for His ^[c]law.”

⁵This is what God the Lord says,

Who ^(J)created the heavens and ^(K)stretched them out,
Who spread out the ^(L)earth and its ^[d]offspring,
Who ^(M)gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it:
⁶“I am the Lord, I have ^(N)called You in righteousness,
I will also ^(O)hold You by the hand and ^(P)watch over You,
And I will appoint You as a ^(Q)covenant to the people,
As a ^(R)light to the nations,
⁷To ^(S)open blind eyes,
To ^(T)bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 42:1 Or hold fast
Isaiah 42:1 Or Gentiles
Isaiah 42:4 Or instruction
Isaiah 42:5 Or vegetation

Isaiah 49:1-7

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Salvation Reaches to the Ends of the Earth

49 Listen to Me, you ^(A)islands,
And pay attention, you peoples from afar.
^(B)The Lord called Me from the womb;
From the ^[a]body of My mother He named Me.
²He has made My ^(C)mouth like a sharp sword,
In the ^(D)shadow of His hand He has concealed Me;
And He has also made Me a sharpened ^(E)arrow,
He has hidden Me in His quiver.
³He said to Me, “^(F)You are My Servant, Israel,
^(G)In whom I will show My glory.”
⁴But I said, “I have ^(H)labored in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and futility;
Nevertheless, the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My ^(I)reward is with My God.”

⁵And now says ^(J)the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him, so that ^(K)Israel might be gathered to Him
(For I am ^(L)honored in the sight of the Lord,
And My God is My ^(M)strength),
⁶He says, “It is too ^[b]small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ^(N)protected ones of Israel;
I will also make You a ^(O)light ^[c]of the nations
So that My salvation may ^[d]reach to the ^(P)end of the earth.”
⁷This is what the Lord, the ^(Q)Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
Says to the ^[e]^(R)despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers:
“^(S)Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also ^(T)bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

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Isaiah 49:1 Lit inward parts
Isaiah 49:6 Lit light
Isaiah 49:6 Or to
Isaiah 49:6 Lit be
Isaiah 49:7 Lit despised of soul

Isaiah 50:5-9

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⁵The Lord God has ^(A)opened My ear,
And I was ^(B)not disobedient,
Nor did I turn back.
⁶I ^(C)gave My back to those who strike Me,
And My cheeks to those who pull out My beard;
I did not hide My face from insults and spitting.
⁷For the Lord God ^(D)helps Me,
Therefore, I am ^(E)not disgraced;
Therefore, I have made My face like ^(F)flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
⁸He who ^(G)vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us ^(H)stand up to each other.
Who has a case against Me?
Let him approach Me.
⁹Behold, ^(I)the Lord God helps Me;
^(J)Who is he who condemns Me?
Behold, ^(K)they will all wear out like a garment;
A moth will eat them.

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Isaiah 52:12-53

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¹²But you will not go out in ^(A)a hurry,
Nor will you go ^[a]as fugitives;
For the ^(B)Lord will go before you,
And ^(C)the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

The Exalted Servant

¹³Behold, My ^(D)Servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and ^[b]greatly ^(E)exalted.
¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His ^(F)appearance was marred beyond that of a man,
And His form beyond the sons of mankind.
¹⁵So ^[c]He will ^(G)sprinkle many nations,
Kings will ^(H)shut their mouths on account of Him;
For ^(I)what they had not been told, they will see,
And what they had not heard, they will understand.

The Suffering Servant

53 ^(J)Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He grew up before Him like a ^(K)tender ^[d]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has ^(L)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
³He was ^(M)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of ^[e]great pain and ^(N)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was ^(O)despised, and we had no ^(P)regard for Him.

⁴However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(Q)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by ^(R)God, and humiliated.
⁵But He was ^[f]pierced for ^(S)our offenses,
He was crushed for ^(T)our wrongdoings;
The ^(U)punishment for our ^[g]well-being was laid upon Him,
And by ^(V)His wounds we are healed.
⁶All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To ^[h]fall on Him.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(W)open His mouth;
^(X)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the ^[i]living
^(Y)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
⁹And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a ^(Z)rich man in His death,
^(AA)Because He had ^(AB)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰But the Lord desired
To ^(AC)crush Him, ^[j]^(AD)causing Him grief;
If He renders ^[k]Himself as a guilt ^(AE)offering,
He will see ^(AF)His ^[l]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^[m]good ^(AG)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
¹¹As a result of the ^[n]anguish of His soul,
He will ^[o]^(AH)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(AI)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will ^(AJ)bear their wrongdoings.
¹²Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(AK)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His ^[p]^(AL)life unto death,
And was ^(AM)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself ^(AN)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.