Isaiah 42:5-12

English Standard Version

⁵Thus says God, the Lord,
    who created the heavens ^(A)and stretched them out,
    who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
^(B)who gives breath to the people on it
    and spirit to those who walk in it:
⁶“I am the Lord; ^(C)I have called you^[a] in righteousness;
    I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you ^(D)as a covenant for the people,
    ^(E)a light for the nations,
⁷    ^(F)to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
    ^(G)from the prison those who sit in darkness.
⁸I am the Lord; that is my name;
    ^(H)my glory I give to no other,
    nor my praise to carved idols.
⁹Behold, the former things have come to pass,
    ^(I)and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
    I tell you of them.”

Sing to the Lord a New Song

¹⁰^(J)Sing to the Lord a new song,
    his praise from the end of the earth,
^(K)you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,
    ^(L)the coastlands and their inhabitants.
¹¹Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,
    the villages that ^(M)Kedar inhabits;
let the habitants of ^(N)Sela sing for joy,
    let them shout from the top of the mountains.
¹²Let them give glory to the Lord,
    and declare his praise in ^(O)the coastlands.